Under the seventy four series of its online exhibition by Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, today presented the ‘Rajwar House of Chhattisgarh’, situated in the Tribal Habitat open air exhibition of IGRMS has been presented online with its basic information and photographs and videos.
About this exhibition, Praveen Kumar Mishra, Director, IGRMS said that – Rajwar is one of the important artistic communities of Chhattisgarh. Agriculture is the mainstay of the Rajwar. Economy and paddy is grown as the main crop. The Rajwar starts constructing their house on Monday. The area is well demarcated and thick mud wall is raised from earthen plinth and horizontal bars are fixed above to frame out the roofing structure.
Manually prepared baked tiles having endorsed with varied figures of wild birds and animals are used for roofing the house. Lattice work is greatly rendered with art works to fix the portion of the windows. Amongst Rajwars artistic lattices and paintings of animals - birds and of deities on walls are prepared by women of the house. This community leaves in the Sarguja district of Chhattisgarh state.