Cow Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art Colour:White Material : Wood

Material : Wood

It's designed and sold as a decorative folk art piece rather than a consecrated devotional object

A Yakshagana performer's face

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multi-coloured floral design makes it a good fit for anyone who enjoys vibrant accent pieces

Cow Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art Colour:White Material : WoodNot every Cheriyal mould is a deity or a mythological figure among the twenty odd traditional face masks still used in the village of Cheriyal, near Warangal in Telangana, several are pulled straight from rural life itself: village women, farmers, and animals like cows and tigers, characters that would have appeared in the everyday, non mythological scenes of a Chindu ballad performance. This cow mask belongs to that pastoral side of the tradition,