Maharashtra Tribal Art Wall Art

Maharashtra Tribal Art — 2 museum-grade prints on the theme. Warli painting belongs to the Warli Adivasi communities of the North Sahyadri range in Maharashtra — Talasari, Dahanu, Jawhar, Palghar, and Mokhada among the heartland districts where women traditionally painted rice-paste and gum pigment onto red ochre cow-dung or mud walls during weddings, harvests, and seasonal rituals. The geometric vocabulary — triangle torsos, circle heads, square chauk enclosures when ritual demands, horizontal bands for farming — encodes daily life rather than illusionistic depth. Warli painting is the ritual and daily-life art of the Warli (Varli) Adivasi community of the North Sahyadri range in Maharashtra — Palghar, Thane, Dahanu, Jawhar, and adjoining districts — traditionally executed by women on interior hut walls coated with geru red earth and cow dung, using white pigment from rice paste, water, and gum applied with chewed bamboo sticks. Motifs rely on circles, triangles, and squares: circle heads and wheels, triangle torsos, square chauk fields for sacred geometry at weddings.

Updated 14 Jun 2026