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Saura — the Saurian tribal icon-wall paintings
Saura — the Saurian tribal icon-wall paintings
Hindu / Saura / Tribal
The Saura tribe (~500,000) of the Eastern Ghats have a sophisticated religious tradition centered on Idital wall-paintings — ritual diagrams of village-life and ancestors painted on the inside walls of Saura houses. The paintings are commissioned for specific ritual purposes: marriage, birth, death, harvest. The priest-artist (Kuranmaran) performs the wall-painting while in trance. Saura art has UNESCO recognition and has been globally-exhibited.
