page_title: Caparison
section_title: Domesticated and temple elephants of India
hierarchical_section_title: Caparison / Domesticated and temple elephants of India
caption_attribution_description: മലയാളം: നെറ്റിപ്പട്ടം
context_page_description: A caparison is a cloth covering laid over a horse or other animal for protection and decoration. In modern times, they are used mainly in parades and for historical reenactments. A similar term is horse-trapper. The word is derived from the Latin caparo, meaning a cape.
context_section_description: In the Indian state of Kerala, elephants are decorated during temple festivals.   They wear a distinctive golden head covering called a nettipattam, which is often translated into English as an elephant caparison.  However, it covers only the head, not the body, as in a horse caparison.
caption: Nettipattam on a Caparison elephant
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