Tribe of Damaun The peculiarities common to the tribes of Damaun will be best shown by comparing them with the other division of the eastern Afghauns. They differ from the Berdooraunees in appearance, being large bony men, often fair, and always wearing long hair and beards. They have less of the look of Indians than the others, though their summer dress is nearly the same as that of India. Instead of the long wide shirt and cap of the Afghauns, they wear a close dress of white cotton, tied across the breast, and reaching a little below the knee; even in winter they wear turbans, but they are extremely large and loose, while those of the Indians are rolled close round their head, in a regular shape that has little grace or elegance. At that season, they also wear brown and grey woollen great coats, and posteens. The Hazaurehs The Hazaurehs live in thatched houses, half sunk in the slope of the hills. The Plate (No. XII: “It is a good likeness of Kereem, a Hazaureh once in my service, but his face was more cheerful and good-humored.”) shows the dress of the men, which is distinguished by the rolls of cloth which they twist round their legs like Uzbeks. The Women wear long frocks of woollen stuff, and boots of soft deer-skin, which reach to their knees. Their cap sits close to their head, and a slip of cloth hangs down from it behind as far as their middle. Both men and women have strong Tartar features, but are stouter and plumper than their neighbours. 2. A Taujik in Summer Dress of Cabul and A Eusofzye The Eusofzykes The ordinary dress of the men is a cotton tunic, made to fit the body down to the waist, and then loose and full down to below the knees; it is either dark-blue, or dyed grey with the bark of the pomegranate tree. They also wear a large, loose, white turban, a pair of cotton trousers, and a pair of sandals; but their dress is not complete without a Loongee (A large handkerchief of blue silk and cotton mixed), which hangs over the shoulder, and reaches below the middle, both before and behind. It is sometimes used for a cloak, and sometimes for a girdle. They have always a better suit of clothes for Fridays and great occasions. The tunic is then made longer and fuller below, and is puckered up about the waist in numerous plaints. The rest of the holiday clothes are of coloured silk, except the turban. The women wear a gown close over the breast, and very wide below. They wear many gold and silver ornaments, like those used in India. Neither sex wear the long shirt which is so commonamong the other Afghauns. The women of the Eusofzyes are carefully concealed, and never leave their houses without putting on the cloak called Boorka, which covers them from head to foot. The women do not work out of doors; those of the poorest men bring in water, but they always do so by night.
Ther Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, Mssrs Longman, Hurst Rees, Orme, Brown and Murray, London 1815, illustrated