Since the dawn of history, man has been struggling to find ways and means of extending and multiplying his own physical efforts in order to free his muscles from the burden of life’s tasks. Not that human beings are inherently lazy. This ceaseless search for easier ways to do things is indicative that Homo sapiens has intelligence and that he uses it to his own advantage in his struggle with his environment. Day by day, the requirements of manual materials handling (MMH) are tremendously increasing, and today we find MMH in each and every walk of life. The excessive load carried by a man or the load carried by a man for an excessive period of time leads to the breakage of various body segments or components depending on the kind of load he carries, which are absolutely unrepairable. Overloading or improper handling has a great and permanent effect on the human body. For a scientist or a research fellow, it is absolutely necessary to find out what those methods or habits are, or how many ways the people follow to handle the materials. Thus, an elaborate documentation of the different ways and habits involved in material carrying by the Indian people is necessary.