The Warli tribe, living in, and around Thane district of Maharashtra, are known for the hallowed pictographs they paint on the walls of their unassuming huts during wedding rituals. Palaghata, the mother goddess of trees, and plants symbolizing the original, and ethereal energy, is the central subject of such Warli paintings.
Originating around 3000 BC, the visual power of the Warli painting is accomplished through line drawings of numerous, tiny human forms occupied in daily activities like hunting, dancing, or cultivating land. Warli paintings has been reassigned to paper, and cloth layered with cow dung paste, which fabricates the distinguishing natural, and subtle background with the leitmotifs painted white.
