Subject
Colours
Description
Freshly plucked henna leaves (mehendi pata) are torn by hand and ground to a rough paste on the shil nora (traditional grinding stones). The paste is then squeezed to obtain an orange 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