Their special entertainment consists in playing with cymbals, and women are the chief performers.

The woman has eight or nine cymbals secured to her legs before and behind, and she strikes these rapidly in turn with another held in her hand, twisting her body skilfully so as to reach all of them, and keeping time with the music played on guitar-like instruments by the men who accompany her.

If the woman is especially skilful, she will also hold a naked sword in her mouth, so as to increase the difficulty of the performance.
The Kamads dress after the Rajputana fashion, and wear yellow ochre-coloured clothes.

Their exogamous sections have Rajput names, as Chauhan, Panwar, Gudesar, Jogpal and so on, and like the Rajputs they send a cocoanut-core to signify a proposal for marriage.

But the fact that they have a special aversion to Dhobis and will not touch them makes it possible that they originated from the Dom caste, who share this prejudice.