The ongoing eight-day national art workshop on ‘Position and importance of the lion or tiger folk or tribal myths at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya concluded on Monday.
In the workshop, 28 artists from eight States presented various folks and tribal arts with Tiger as central theme. Speaking at the concluding ceremony, Director, Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri said, “The paintings displayed in this workshop are excellent, we plan to mount an exhibition next year on Tiger with these paintings.”
Addressing the artisans, Prof Chaudhuri said the museum belongs to artisans. The museum exists because of them.
Delivering the welcome address, Assistant Curator (Display), Anand Tehanguriya said that there is no other animal that has influenced any society, mythology, stories and culture more than tiger.
Sharing his experiences from this workshop, Madhubani painter, KK Jha said that this is a very innovative and artistic research on importance of Tiger in folk and Tribal mythology and art. On this occasion, Gond painter Narmada Singh Tekam and Scroll painter Anil Chitrakaar narrated the stories on which their paintings are based.
The programme coordinator of the workshop, Sudipa Roy (Assistant Keeper) said tiger is honoured in different ways in different communities like amongst Warli Tribe of Maharastra it is a good omen to see footprints of Tiger, which is believed to result good harvest. The footprints are worshipped with Vermillion and Turmeric. In few tribes of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, Tiger is considered to be their brother and the myth says that both Human and Tiger are child of same mother.
At the concluding ceremony, Director, Prof Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri and Joint Director, Arun Kumar Shrivastava distributed certificates to the artists. The programme was coordinated by Garima Anand (Museum Associate).