There is the music, the singing, dancing, and literature of all kinds as well as customs and social norms. The floors are covered with clean sand and household utensils for everyday use hang from the ceiling. The walls of houses, especially the facade are decorated with ornaments and paintings of flags, flowers, birds and animals. Crockery is often used for wall decorations, a plate usually occupied the centre of the design on the facade. A Nubian house is usually composed of the entrance hall, an open court, domed bedrooms, the store, the kitchen and the toilet.
Nubian jewelry is rich and various according to form, function and materials.
There are necklaces, pendants, bracelets, rings. Jewelry is usually made of gold or silver and occasionally inlaid with semi-precious stones. Nubian and Sudanese jewelers living in Cairo, especially in Abdin Quarter specialize in this craft. Some of them live in Nubian towns and villages. Nubian crafts are relatively few and rather primitive.