dheki

#Dheki is a traditional agricultural tool used for threshing to separate rice grains from their outer husks, while leaving the bran layer, thus producing brown rice in many villages women folk do this work exceptions  are everywhere but work of preparing rice/paddy for family rests in hands of women this is also innovation evolved in rice producing areas in West Bengal and Bangladesh.

In the other hand a terracotta panel from temples in west Bengal which represents the Bengali dhnekis or rice thresher in the village of #Ganpur in central #Birbhum district. In #Bengali folklore the iconography of narada muni is related with flying dhneki as his vehicle. We could see such kind of terracotta panel in Assam westbengal and Bangladesh.

 This panel is from a temple in Uchkaron in #Birbhum district. This scene is also depicted in terracotta temples around Goghat in #Hugli district.

--- Ramu.Rm.N

ottiyanam gridls

#ottiyanam 3

south india rigid waist belt were  commonly known as #Oddiyanam  the very purpose of the Girdles encircle the attire and which holds the bottom piece of clothing, that complements the texture of traditional outfits.

Here in this instance which shown below shows  the another style of golden girdle from #melkote thirunarayanapuram temple  which is used to adorn by the processional deities upayanachiyars along with all  jewelleries used during annular  festival occasions and also in another part a  late 19 th century photograph of a south India women from Tamilnadu is shown on which a lady adorned with Victorian Edwardian 1837-1910 era south Indian golden jewelleries among which similar magnificent griddle also  we could witness girdle ( ottiyanam ) so from these pictured could understand the usage of griddle from deity to the common public is quite common and also similar pattern do exist for some centuries too.

-- Ramu.Rm.N