13.03.2011

Wooden Steles of the Tharu people, tribal cult of the female and male divinityes Cabahwaguni and Daharcand

The presence of a couple, from an iconographic point of view, it's one of the constant elements that we can to find in the wooden carved steles of the Tharu people,  linked with the  cult of the female and male divinityes Cabahwaguni and Daharcandi .

Gisèle Krauskopff, Maîtres et possédés - Les rites et l'ordre social chez les Tharu (Népal) 

 Editions du CNRS, Meudon, Juin 1989

The style of these carvings can vary from the realistic till the  nearly geometric representation of the human figure
 Ethnoflorence and Ethnoeidos Indian and Himalayan Folk and Tribal Arts Photo Archive
 1990 2010
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