Pink (from Dopati)

Subject

Colours

Description

Freshly plucked balsam flowers (dopati phul) are rolled in the palms of ones hand and dark pink liquid is squeezed out from them onto hollowed out coconut shells. This is then mixed with natural glue made from wood-apples (bel-er atha).

Creator

Chitrakar, Khaleda
Chitrakar, Lutfa
Chitrakar, Rehana

Publisher

University of Exeter

Date

2019-11-10

Contributor

Dutta, Shrutakirti
Halder, Bhagirath
Mondal, Sujit
Mukherjee, Ayesha

Rights

CC-BY-NC

Format

Photo
Video

Type

Event