dumpra

{{short description|Traditional dress of Lepcha men}}

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Dumpra (also dumprá; Lepcha for "male dress") is the traditional dress of Lepcha men. It consists of a multicolored, hand-woven cloth pinned at one shoulder and held in place by a waistband called a gyatomu, usually worn over a white shirt and trousers. With it, men wear a flat round cap called a thyáktuk, with stiff black velvet sides and a multicolored top topped by a knot. Rarely, the traditional cone-shaped bamboo and rattan hats are worn.{{cite book|last=Plaisier |first=Heleen |year=2007 |title=A Grammar of Lepcha |volume=5 |series=Tibetan studies library: Languages of the greater Himalayan region |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston |isbn=978-90-04-15525-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpCXEc_9RWcC |page=4}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ACBAAAAMAAJ |title=Family, marriage, and social change on the Indian fringe |first=S. M |last=Dubey |editor=S. M. Dubey |editor2=P. K. Bordoloi |editor3=B. N. Borthakur |publisher=Cosmo |year=1980 |pages=53, 56 |access-date=2012-10-30}}{{cite book|title=Himalayan Lepchas |first=Rudranand |last=Thakur |publisher=Archives Publishers, Distributors |year=1988 |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cdYtAAAAMAAJ |access-date=2012-10-30}}{{cite book|title=Present Buddhist tribals and vihāras in West Bengal |first=Chittaranjan |last=Patra |publisher=Sarkar & Co |year=1991 |page=59 }}