Juang

The Juang are an Austroasiatic people of the Gonsaika and Gonasika hills in Keonjhar, Odisha, whose Munda language is closest to Kharia; their tradition places their origin at Gonasika, source of the Baitarani River. Once called Patuas or leaf-wearers for their women's leaf girdles, they lived from the forest and bartered their woven baskets for salt, oil and food.