This book of 528 pages and 823 photographs thus presents painted stones, large wooden stone slabs and figures - representations of bodies for otherwise unsettled souls of the dead - but also monumental wooden crocodiles, revered with piles of terracotta votive offerings. They also documented the production, installation and worship of these icons and ritual objects. An astonishing variety of expressive forms are displayed by these spectacular field photographs, taken half a century ago.
This publication is a tribute to the artistic and ritualistic accomplishments of Adivasi ritual leaders, healers and craftspeople of the past in a once remote area of Western India.
Haku Shah (1934 - 2019) was a painter, cultural anthropologist, photographer, curator and a Gandhian. An author of international repute on folk and tribal art, he established a tribal museum in Ahmedabad at the Gujarat Vidyapith and gram, a crafts village near Udaipur in Rajasthan. He cooperated with Eberhard Fischer in 1965/66 at the National Institute of Design, in Saurashtra and again in 1968-70 in Surat District as well as in Kutch. He curated several exhibitions across the world including Unknown India, organized by art historian Stella Kramrisch at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1968. He also has films and several children's books to his credit and taught at various art and design schools, including UC Davis as a Regent Professor. He continued painting and had many successful shows in India and abroad. He received several awards including Padma Shri in 1989.
The following Introduction is essentially the one published in our first publication, Mogra Dev, Tribal Crocodile Gods (Ahmedabad, 1971). Additions are marked by <...>, minor changes and omissions are not marked.
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