Handmade in India

JADUPATUA PAINTING
THESE ARE RITUALISTIC scroll paintings made by Jadupatuas,the
itinerant minstrel-healers of the Santhal tribe.An ancient traditional,these
scrolls are narratins of myths and tales from the Santhal cosmos,like the
exploits of the tiger gods Satyapir and Satyanarain.Hindu themes like
scenes from Krishna`s life extracts from the Ramayana,and lives of
Bengali saints like Chaitanya are also popular.Twenty or more panels are
arranged vertically,and the scrolls are unrolled to the accompaniment of
songs or chants sung by the Jadupatua himself.The painters or chitrakars
hold priest-like status in the Santhal community-they must perform at the
time of births,deaths or marriages, and are given offerings to pray for the
occasion.The paintings are simple illustrations,devoid of an evolved
symbolism like that of say,Madhubani or Warli paintings.The themes
depend on the occasion of display-a wedding scroll would have stages of a
marriage right from the beginning when the bride-groom`s family visits
the bride`s village to see her,down to the actual ceremony.Usually,the
scrolls are not painted for sale,unless an order is placed.
An image of Goddess Kali.
Production Clusters
Dumka district:
Jadupatia
Tools
Brushes
Vegetable paints
The scrolls consit of twenty or more
individual story panels arranged
vertically,which are unrolled and rerolled as
the story is sung.Older scrolls were painted on
fabric.Those shown here,are painted in natural
paints on paper-generally a series of
individual sheet sewn together.
BLACK TERRACOTTA
BLACK AND RED TERRACOTTA items are thrown on the wheel
in Jisidh.The process used is that of reduction firing.When the
products are fired ,those that must turn black are first put into a
tightly-seales terracotta utensil which is then fired,while the red
ones are placed in the furnace directly.Due to lack of oxygen,the
pots inside the utensil turn black.
Terracotta Jewellery
Women of the Sonar tribe in Nonigaon make hand-formed and diepressed
terracotta jewellery to be sold mostly in the markets of
Shantiniketan and Kolkata.
Agarbathi or
incense stick
stand.
1. Necklace made with
terracotta beads and diepressed
pendant.
2. Bowls,the terracotta
bowls are used
domestically while the
black bowls have more
market value.
3. Kamandal surahi,pot
with a spout.
4. Coin bank
Tools
Kumhar ka chakkapotter`s
wheel
Chakhayat-wooden
hemisperical tube
Maria-hammer
Dice-mould also
made of mud
Seet patiaa-wooden
slab on which the
mud is beaten.
Production Clusters
Dumka district:
Dumka,Nonigaon
Products
Kamandal surai-water
container
Nal walli surai-pots
with taps
Gamalla-flowerpots
Deepak-lamps
Gulak-coin banks
Phooldani-vases
Momdani-candle
stands
Ashtrays
Paon walla jama-foot
scrubber
Small toys sets
Kulhad-small
containers to drink
tea
Jewellery:
Bala-churri-knife
Hasli-necklace
Jhumka-earings