The Baiga and Muria Gonds are indigenous tribes that mostly inhabit the central states of India. Most inhabitants of madhya pradesh and chhattisgarh are experts in thinking and behavior toward environmental nature, the spiritual world, and others. The girdle or belt has a very distinct place as an essential part of traditional dress when it comes to their dance costume. It is usually made out of reed-and-cowrie-type fruit seeds, which this adornment is wrapped artfully around the waist.
Such tanning with reed and seed has tempted the respect of that tribe toward nature itself, as those materials are extracted from the environment right in their area. More to that, many indigenous cultures among the cowrie seeds consider these to have meanings of fertility and prosperity, thereby adding spiritual values to this specific belt. The ornament comes on numerous important occasions, festivals, rituals, and dances, where jingling sound rhythm adds to the atmospheric impact.
The belt in Baiga and Muria Gond culture is an ornament; more so, it represents one's identity and richness in terms of traditions. Noise produced in dance forms synchronized with the steps of the dancer echoes respect of the tribes toward nature and spirits they venerate, thus forming a tangible link between their cultural traditions and environment, wherein every aspect-from the materials to the performance itself-an embodies a conceptual meaning.