Under the latest and popular online series of Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya entitled Exhibit of the Week’ ‘Jatri-Patti, A religious souvenir” colleted from Raghuraj pur puri district communities of chitrakar in 2015 displayed in the audience as the Fourth Exhibit of the month of June,2023 through official website, Facebook, Instagram and twitter page of the IGRMS.
In this regard Dr.BhuvanVikram, Director, IGRMS said that theJatri patti is a religious painting meant exclusively for pilgrims. In the olden days pilgrims visiting Puri used to take jatri pattis as souvenirs. Jatri pattis are the earliest form of patta painting.
It is painted on both primed paper and clothes of various shapes and sizes. In the case of the jatripattis, the motifs associated with the trinity always occur at the center of the smaller paintings, while the trinity themselves are found inside the temple in comparatively larger paintings. It basically depicts the trinity in different postures and the architecture of the Jagannath temple at Puri.
The main natural colours used in jatripatti are sankha (white), hengula (red), neli (blue), pocha (green), haritala (yellow), kala (black), and geru (ochre).
These jatripattis are named differently according to their shape and size, for example, anguthi (circular shape of finger-tip size), gola (circular type), pancha mandiria (depicting five temples), and sankhanavi (depicting the temple's architecture on a conch-shell painting).