The masks of Charida
Chhau is a masked dance of gods, demons and animals. In Charida, below the Ajodhya hills, families of mask makers build each face from paper, clay and cloth and crown it with tinsel and beads.
A district of West Bengal
Puruliaপুরুলিয়া
Hills and sal forest on the Jharkhand border, and the painted masks of Charida.
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A dance for the spring
Purulia Chhau is performed at the Chaitra festival in April. UNESCO placed Chhau on its list of intangible cultural heritage in 2010.
Traditional to Purulia
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Chhau maskFrom a palm-sized souvenir to a full dance mask.- Purulia tussarWild silk, woven in the north of the district.
- Dokra figuresLost-wax brass animals and lamps.
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