: Adivasi Women Are Reclaiming Centuries-Old Warli Art With GI-Tags Huge Murals #IndiaNEWS It was predominantly an art made by women. Simple art consisting of circles, triangles, lines and dots. All

Adivasi Women Are Reclaiming Centuries-Old Warli Art With GI-Tags Huge Murals #IndiaNEWS
It was predominantly an art made by women. Simple art consisting of circles, triangles, lines and dots. All arranged differently and only in white, either on red background of geru (red clay) or greenish brown of cow dung smeared on the walls. They sketched when they were happy when there was a birth, a wedding or death in the family. These women took up their ‘brush’ and ‘paints’ to draw sowing paddy, when it rained, when they harvested, when a snake or a tiger entered their fields, when they worshipped or when they celebrated.

They are the Adivasis of Warli, and their art has come to be known as Warli art. Originally hunter-gatherers, the former nomads, have now settled on the Western coasts of Maharashtra and Gujarat states. Forests lands in talukas like Jawahar, Palghar, Dahanu, Nashik, etc. have padas (hamlets) of the Warlis.

For thousands of years, it was Warli women who painted mud walls of their bamboo houses with everyday events of their lives. In her book, The painted world of the Warlis, art historian Yashodhara Dalmia says that the tradition of Warlis goes back to 2500 BCE or 3000 BCE and that their paintings are similar to those found in the Rock Shelters in Bhimbetka, in Madhya Pradesh which were said to be around 500 BCE to 10,000 BCE. But there are no records of this claim. The general belief is that this art originated somewhere in the 10th century AD.

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