Traditional Dhingna Lipai of Pradhan Gonds
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Traditional Dhingna Lipai of Pradhan Gonds

in Video
Published on: 27 July 2018

Mushtak Khan

Mushtak Khan is Consultant and Research Coordinator with Sahapedia. A postgraduate in Fine Arts and Inorganic Chemistry, he served as Deputy Director (Design and Documentation), Crafts Museum, New Delhi, for more than twenty years.

In this video, a Gond tribal woman draws Dhingna, a geometric pattern painted on the inner and outer walls and floors of the Gond houses during weddings and other festive occasions.
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Mushtak Khan

Mushtak Khan is Consultant and Research Coordinator with Sahapedia. He has served as Deputy Director, Crafts Museum, New Delhi, for more than 20 years. Associated with Lalit Kala Akademi, Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited, and NCERT, he has undertaken extensive fieldwork and documentation of tribal and folk arts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Odisha.

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