Aweaver of the Chhota Udaipur area in Vadodara District of Gujarat would live and work in this type of hut. The weaver’s loom and spinning wheel are fixed in the verandah. The rear of the hut is a combined living room and kitchen. The walls are of bamboo, plastered with a binding mixture of dung and mud,’and the hut is roofed with handmade terracotta tiles.

Bhujodi, located in Bhuj district in western Gujarat is the homeland of the Kutchhi Rebaries. The Bhujodi huts are built on a raised mud platform and are built of stone, plastered with mud render. The wooden roof is covered with tiles. The aesthetics of the interior are heightened by mud relief work in the form of plants and animals, executed on the inner walls. The large terra cotta containers, the Kothi, are used for thesafekeeping of jewelry, food grains and for other domestic articles of everyday use.

The Meghwal Banni Hut belongs to the Meghwal Community of Kutch, in Western Gujarat.   Constructed on a raised platform, this circular house with its conical roof is known as a “Bhungo”.  Banni huts are shaped in such a way that they can withstand the whirlwinds and stiff breezes that affect the unsheltered plains of this area.

The hut is merely one circular room constructed of sun-dried mud bricks. The roof is supported by a central wooden pillar, together with crossbeams.   Split bamboo provides an inner lining for the roof, whilst the outer surface is thatched with thick local grasses. Apart from the Meghwals, the Rebari tribe and the Maldharis, a Muslim community indigenous to that area, have almost identical housing.