Naga Snake Art Wall Art

Naga Snake Art — 2 museum-grade prints on the theme. Kohbar — also called puren in Kayastha households — is the Madhubani style tied to the nuptial chamber (kohbar ghar) where Maithil bride and groom spend their first nights after marriage. Women in villages including Ranti, Jitwarpur, and Madhubani town traditionally painted these walls with cow-dung and mud base coats, rice-paste line, and natural pigments — vermillion for auspicious union, ochre from turmeric or geru, lampblack from soot. Godna — from the Hindi word for ritual tattoo — is the Madhubani style rooted in Dusadh women's body-art tradition in the Mithila region, distinct from Brahmin Bharni deity panels and Kayastha Kachni line work. Encouraged onto paper in the 1970s by anthropologist Erika Moser-Schmitt, Godna artists in villages like Jitwarpur and Rajnagar translated arm-band, leg-band, and torso tattoo motifs into dense dot-and-dash compositions on cow-dung-washed handmade sheets.

Updated 14 Jun 2026