Husking paddy song@ Wayanadu | നെല്ല് കുത്തൽ പാട്ട്, വയനാട് | Traditional rice Husking song

This video presents the pounding and sorting of paddy. The song while manually Husking the paddy is a traditional custom of Kerala. It reduces the boredom and fatigue of the repeated time taking hard way process. Even though technology diminishes such tradition, it still existing among the tribes of Wayanadu.
In ancient days, there were no rice mills in Kerala. One could buy rice that came in sacks from outside the State. This was known as chakkari. It smelled and the taste was not good. People preferred locally grown grain.
Paddy was de-husked manually in mortars using pestles. In big houses there were two types of mortars, one made of stone, and the other of wood, normally anjili, a tree. The sound of pestles pounding on the rice in the mortars (usually women did this) had a musical note to it. Women of several poor families earned partial livelihood by doing this. They would take home measured quantities of paddy from the houses, de-husk and return it. The payment was always in kind.
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