Cow Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art Colour:White uniform colour — which is

uniform colour — which is why the maroon here reads with such depth and texture rather than looking simply "dyed

and protection against negative energy

Dimensions: Height 15 inches

This one is different — caught mid-movement

This piece is designed to do double duty: prop it upright on a desk or shelf as a table piece

Cow Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art Colour:White uniform colour — which isNot 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,