India · Painting / Scroll Painting
చేర్యాల స్క్రోల్ పెయింటింగ్ (Cheriyal scroll painting); painters = Nakashi (Nakash)
Narrative scroll painting of Cheriyal village, Telangana, made by the Nakashi caste for itinerant storyteller communities such as the Kaki Padagollu, who unrolled the scroll panel by panel as they sang. Khadi cloth is coated in three layers of a paste of rice starch, white clay, tamarind-seed paste and tree gum, burnished with stone and given a red ground; figures are outlined in graphite and painted with natural pigments from stones, lamp soot, shells and turmeric. Scrolls ran 40–60 feet; today most work is smaller canvases, masks and wooden figures. Registered as a Geographical Indication in 2007.
Risk level: Endangered · Not inscribed
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