Gomira
Gomira is a masked dance of the Rajbanshi villages around Kushmandi, performed in the spring for the village goddess. The masks are carved from a single block of light wood.
A district of West Bengal
Dakshin Dinajpurদক্ষিণ দিনাজপুর
The far north of the plains, and the wooden masks of Kushmandi.
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Bangarh
Near Gangarampur lie the mounds of Bangarh, a city that was already old when the Guptas ruled, and the earliest of the district’s layers.
Traditional to Dakshin Dinajpur
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- Gomira maskCarved wood, painted or left plain.
- Kushmandi wood carvingFigures and panels in the same hand.
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