If one looks at a Paniya Yerava women from her right side he can see only one end of the saree visible back side and for Panjiri Yerava women both ends of the saree would be visible for him from the right hand side, one from her back and another from her front. Men, while working, tie the towel around their head to protect their head from sun and protect their hair falling on their face. Women are found to use cheap beads kalle around their neck bought from shandy. Some other ornaments made out of cheap metal worn by Yerava women are kaaka for ears, bae for hands, ka:lu mo:dara for fingers of the legs, mo:dara for fingers of the hand etc.

Connor (1870) describes the Yerava with his "hair tied in a knot on the top of his head", but this is no longer found. Most of the Yeravas have their hair cut, but rarely cut; simply they allow their hair to fall from their head. Yerava women tie a thread to their hair and leave them behind. They do not have long hair-hardly one foot or one and a half feet long, neither black nor brown, curly hair. Even girls of age 10-12 years can be seen with small sarees wraped around like elder Yerava women.

The Yeravas working in places other than the plantations buy clothes from the market. Most of the Yeravas are found without chappals. Yeravas do not weave their cloth. Weaving is conspicuous by its absence in this tribal community.

The Yeravas get up before sun rise. The womenfolk cook kañi 'rice porridge' for them. They eat the food at about 7.30 in the morning and go to the forest or the plantation for their work. All the able bodied men, women and children go to work and are paid accordingly. Only the women who have given birth to the child and mire:yi 'old man' and mirati 'old woman' remain at home. These people look after the children and look after the paddy field in the government land opposite to the house and the cattle if any. They tie koake 'wooden bell' to the neck of the cattle and leave it for grazing. This helps them to keep a close watch on the movement of the cattle.

The Yeravas employed in forest work finish their work around three O'clock in the afternoon and move back to their home, which may be 4 to 5 kilometres away from their work spot. Since forests are infested with elephants, the Yeravas try to reach their houses well before dusk. Once it becomes dark, nobody goes out of the settlement. The children, who do not go for work, go for finishing in the streams with a:ce 'fishing basket'. Some of them go for the collection of eatable roots available in the forest, but not away from their home.

On weekly holidays, most of them go to nearby attle 'shandy', to spend time, to buy things for the family, to drink a:ra:ya 'arrack'. The working people, who do not go to atte, would spend their time in clearing the creepers, small plants, etc., that block their sight while moving in the paths for work and obstruct them from locating the elephant.

The daily routine of the Yerava working in plantation differs a little from that of the Yerava working in the forest. He, along with his family, goes to the plantation for working in the morning or at a time given by the owner, some times the owner gives the morning food and some times not, and once he finishes a part of the work he eats either at the owner's place if food is provided there, or comes back home to eat the food, and returns to work. They return home at night from the work.