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Warli Adivasi Rice-Paste Mural Painting

India

Geometric triangle-circle-square white rice-paste painting on red ochre and cow-dung walls across Dahanu and Jawhar in Palghar, Maharashtra.

Warli Adivasi Rice-Paste Mural Painting — archival documentary photograph
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Originating in sacred lagna chauk wedding murals painted by Savasini married women to invoke mother goddess Palaghata, Warli iconography constructs human dancers, trees, tarpa horn players, and paddy harvests from two opposed triangles joined at the waist. 1

Applied with chewed bamboo-stick brushes dipped in ground white rice paste over geru red-earth grounds. 1

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