Many of the Parkas are also Kabirpanthis and, as with the Pankas, those who are not Kabirpanthis and do not abstain from flesh and liquor are called Saktahas.
Some of the Parkas play on drums and act as village musicians, which is a regular occupation of the Pankas and Gandas.
Like the Pankas the Parkas often act as village watchmen.
Mr. Hira Lal points out that several of the names of septs as Padwar, Sanwani, Gullia and Dharwa are the same in the two castes, and that in the Districts where Parkas are found there are no Pankas.
It may also be noted that the Parkas will take food cooked with water from a Gond and that they worship Bura Deo, the great god of the Gonds.
The dress of both sexes consists of parkas and camleykas, both of which nearly resemble in form a carter's frock.
The parkas and stockings of the Kuskoquims are of reindeer-skin, covered with embroidery, and trimmed with valuable furs.
Others sat huddled in their long fur shirts or parkas (which constitute their only garment), and coughed constantly, too sick to show much interest in the white visitors.
Eskimo dolls and toy parkas were the only things that tempted us; and hastily paying for them, we fled on board to our big, comfortable stateroom, whose window was securely netted from the pests which made the very air black.
The brown lads in reindeer parkas were bright-eyed and amiable.
They are used for sledding purposes and for their meat and hides, really beautiful parkas and mukluks--the latter a kind of skin boot--being made of the hides.
Consequently it was necessary to produce the parkas in this country, although our garment makers were entirely unfamiliar with such manufacture.
The officer in charge thereupon commandeered every automobile that came along, piled them all full of parkas and sent them to the baling plant.
The fur rims of their parkas became heavy with icicles formed by moisture from their mouth.
Their hair raised under their parkas as suddenly the woman let out a most blood-curdling scream, leaped into the air several times, and finally commenced to tear her clothes off, piece by piece.
We don't all have parkas or lined boots, and we have a couple of injured men.
By careful nursing they soon had a great bonfire going, in front of which they put their wet socks, mukluks, scarfs, and parkas to dry.
Children in parkas and fur coats trooped to school and studied through the short afternoon by the aid of electric light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parkas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
