Cow Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art Colour:White The ekir refers to the

The ekir refers to the silver

This one is different — caught mid-movement

small differences in line work and shading are normal and expected

A Yakshagana performer's face

Cow Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art Colour:White The ekir refers to theNot 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,