Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga traditional indian gift box Kerala's classical dance-drama

Kerala's classical dance-drama

They are traditional visual markers associated with Nagakaali's iconography

though it works equally well hung on a wall as a decorative piece

conversation-starting gift for anyone drawn to Rajasthan's folk storytelling traditions or bold

Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga traditional indian gift box Kerala's classical dance-dramaNo two Bengal artisans paint Durga's face quite the same way each pandal, each family workshop, brings its own palette to her crown and features, so that the same goddess looks subtly different from one Puja to the next. This single Aranmula shaped frame carries one such interpretation, her crown picked out in greens and reds rather than the warmer tones used in other renderings, her wide, expressive eyes and centred third eye set against a maroon