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Colourful Ritualistic Product - Boa
Artists from Dakshin Dinajpur2019
Banglanatak
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Boa is a ritualistic product made of Shola (a type of natural fibre) from Dinajpur, West Bengal. The monsoon season brings the festival of Manasa worship. During immersion of the Goddess in water, at the end of the festival, Boa or cuboids made out of Shola are either floated on water on a banana leaf boat or hung from bamboo frames over the water. There is a popular belief among the villagers that this ritual saves the villagers from snake bites because the Boa stands as a testimony of Manasa (the Goddess of snakes) worship.
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- Title: Colourful Ritualistic Product - Boa
- Creator: Artists from Dakshin Dinajpur
- Date Created: 2019
- Location: Dakshin Dinajpur
- Subject Keywords: Crafts, Shola, Sholapith, Craftspersons, Artists, Bengal
- Rights: Banglanatak.com
- Medium: Painted sholapith
- About the craft: Shola craft is an age-old tradition of Bengal. It is the art of making delicate, intricate, decorative objects from the soft, supple, porous and light weight core of the shola stem. Shola is an annual aquatic herb which grows in the wild, in marshy, waterlogged areas and at the same time is water resistant. It is also referred to as the Indian cork. This unique craft is used for making a plethora of products ranging from decorative pieces to ritualistic items.
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