Green

Subject

Colours

Description

Freshly plucked latapata leaves are torn by hand and ground to a rough paste on the shil nora (traditional grinding stones). The paste is then squeezed to obtain a green liquid, which is then mixed with natural glue made from wood-apples (bel-er atha), and strained through a cotton cloth. The colour thus produced is placed on hollowed out coconut shells.

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