Cow Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art Colour:White Dimensions: Height 15 inches

Dimensions: Height 15 inches

5 cm handle width

Material: Wood and brass bells

The design is decoupaged onto engineered wood and sealed

the two frames are designed to be hung close together so the pair appears to face one another on the wall

Cow Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art Colour:White Dimensions: Height 15 inchesNot every Cheriyal mould is a deity or a mythological figure among the twenty odd traditional face masks still used in the village of Cheriyal, near Warangal in Telangana, several are pulled straight from rural life itself: village women, farmers, and animals like cows and tigers, characters that would have appeared in the everyday, non mythological scenes of a Chindu ballad performance. This cow mask belongs to that pastoral side of the tradition,