Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga Maroon Telangana wall art a motif that appears across

a motif that appears across nearly every Indian folk art form but reads distinctly different in Tholu Bommalata's bold

and nods to Kerala's Oachira Cattle Festival tradition of parading decorated cattle

formal framing

its hinge and latch intact — while the wooden handle is hand-painted in a bold black-and-red chevron pattern with a single yellow band running through the centre

Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga Maroon Telangana wall art a motif that appears acrossEvery Durga Puja in Bengal builds toward a single moment: chokkhu daan, the ritual "donation of sight," when an artisan paints in the goddess's eyes and she is believed to come alive. This single Aranmula shaped frame carries that same painted face wide, expressive eyes, a third eye at the centre of the forehead, and an elaborate crown in red, orange, and white set against a warm maroon brown ground. Cast in an antique gold finish, the frame borrows