lotahs

Malay races; graceful _bedayas_, the Nautch girls of Java, performing the old-world dances still in vogue; and women with _lotahs_ on their heads, passing in single file to palm-fringed tanks, might be represented with equal truth in this twentieth century.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

Their tins, lotahs and goat-skins were filled, bags of rice, bread and flour were lowered to them; a box of sugar and a packet of biscuit were added; and a gentle little rain of coins fell as though from Heaven.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

The old women dream of me turning in their sleep; the maids look and listen for me when they go to fill their lotahs by the river.

The Bridge Builders Rudyard Kipling 1900

The old women dream of me turning in their sleep; the maids look and listen for me when they go to fill their lotahs by the river.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

East India Company's Service, and the principal drawing-room was decorated with presents sent to him by old pupils, Indian jars and cabinets, brass lotahs and trays, specimens of weapons from Delhi, and ivory carvings; while from pupils who had gone to China and Japan, came bronzes, porcelain, screens, and lacquer of the most beautiful kind.

Burr Junior George Manville Fenn 1870