Tribal Artists

Tribal Art

Adivasi artistic tradition includes all new or old original material, whether visual, musical or oral.
Material arts of tribal India include weaving, pottery, wood carving, brass casting, wrought iron and painting.

In some areas Adivasis employ members of Hindu castes of craftsmen living in the neighbourhood to work for them.   An example of this is the cire-perdue process of brass casting done by the Gadwaa caste for the Muria Gond. 

Certain things are universal, the regard for cowries is one of them.  “When the cowrie is on its side, it is an eye;  when it is upright, it is the vulva.  A little cowrie is a breast lying down, a belly standing up.” (Juang saying)