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Raghurajpur Pattachitra

ପଟ୍ଟଚିତ୍ରRaghurajpur & Puri, Odisha · India

Cloth-scroll and etched palm-leaf (tala pattachitra) narrative painting prepared with tamarind-seed paste, chalk gesso, and conch-shell white.

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The tradition & historical record

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Chitrakar families of Odisha laminate layers of cotton cloth with boiled tamarind-seed gum and burnish chalk-stone gesso with river pebbles before painting Jagannath triad icons and Vaishnava narratives. [1]

Protected under India's Geographical Indications Registry; awaiting an independent practitioner-count source to move out of grey. [2]

Transmission & Custody

Documented custodians and practitioner lineages: Chitrakar Guilds of Raghurajpur & Paralakhemundi.

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Current guild- or locality-level count of active masters and apprentices awaits a cited survey.
Field Audio & Notation
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