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