At present the Kusharfol are not numerous, having only about thirteen male and thirteen female representatives. They have two kudr, headed by Nòdrners and Ongudr, each of which has two pòlm. The chief men of the pòlm of one kudr are Ongudr (65) and Pangudr (66); of the other, Nòdrners and Erkhud (67).
The chief village of Kusharf is near Hullatti, and, like the neighbouring Piedr, is rarely visited.
Umgas. This is at present the most important village of the clan; it is shown in [Fig. 72]. There are two large dwelling-huts shown on the right-hand side of the figure. The building to the left of them is the chief dairy, which is called Kwotòdrvoh. It is a poh and not a pali, though of the ordinary form, and is exceptional in being situated so near the dwelling-huts. The pali is situated still more to the left, hidden by trees.
The two tall stones in the foreground are called nadrkkars. They serve as irnörtkars and also mark out the path by which women must go on their way to the huts, the women [[673]]having to keep on the right-hand side of these stones. By the wall of the huts and close to the poh there are two stones, the majvatitthkars, at which women stand when they receive buttermilk (maj) from the dairy. About fifteen yards in front of the other dairy (pali) there is a stone called imudrikars. On one side of this there is a narrow well-worn track along which women must go on their way to the dairy, and nearer the pali there are two majvatitthkars, where they stand when receiving buttermilk.
FIG. 72.—THE VILLAGE OF UMGAS, SHOWING THE ‘NADRKKARS’ IN THE CENTRE. BEHIND THE STONES IS THE ‘POH’ OF THIS VILLAGE, AND ON ITS RIGHT ARE THE DWELLING-HUTS.
Between the poh and the pali there is the tu and at the far end of this is a large stone, the muütthkars, marking the spot where the mu is buried.
Teidr is not far from Nòdrs. It has two huts and a dairy. The teidrtolkars of Nòdrs takes its name from this village, the wursol who gave the name to the stone being a Teidr man.
Teidr is one of the villages which is said to have been [[674]]formerly a ti mad, and in support of the statement I was taken to see two stones called neurzülnkars at some little distance from the village.
Pòln is close to the tree known in Ootacamund as “the umbrella tree.” There are two huts and a dairy, which was in ruins at the time of my visit. Under the “umbrella tree” there are two stones. One of these has been overgrown by the tree so that it is now firmly imbedded. It is called Korateu and is said to have been thrown by Korateu from his hill. The other stone is deeply imbedded and only shows three small projections above the ground. This is the Nòtirzikars and was thrown to this spot by the goddess Nòtirzi from her hill.