{"id":286210,"date":"2024-03-08T18:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=286210"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T05:26:10","slug":"majuli-masks-gi-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/majuli-masks-gi-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Majuli Masks GI Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source-\u00a0<\/b>The post on Majuli Masks<\/strong>\u00a0is based on the article \u201cGI tag for Majuli masks of Assam: History, cultural significance of the centuries-old art form\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0\u201cIndian Express<\/strong>\u201d on 7th March 2024.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/h2>\n

Recently, Assam\u2019s\u00a0traditional Majuli masks got a GI tag.<\/p>\n

About Majuli masks<\/h2>\n
\"Majuli
Source- The Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1) About:<\/strong> These are handmade masks<\/span> that are traditionally used<\/span> to depict characters in bhaonas, or theatrical performances<\/span> with devotional messages under the neo-Vaishnavite tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: Majuli is the largest river island in the world<\/span> and the seat of Assam\u2019s neo-Vaishnavite tradition. Neo-Vaishnavite tradition was introduced by the 15th-16th century reformer saint Srimanta Sankardeva.<\/p>\n

2) Characterstics:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

i) The masks can depict gods, goddesses, demons, animals and birds.<\/span>\u00a0Ravana, Garuda, Narasimha, Hanuman, Varaha Surpanakha all feature among the masks.<\/p>\n

iii) Sizes:<\/strong>
\n(a) Mukh mukha:<\/span> They cover just the face, and it is made in around five days.
\n(b) Cho mukha:<\/span> They cover the whole head and body of the performer and takes up to one-and-a-half months to be made.<\/p>\n

iii) Material used: The masks are made of bamboo, clay, dung, cloth, cotton, wood and other materials available in the riverine<\/span> surroundings of their makers.<\/p>\n

3. Traditional practitioners are working to take the art out of their traditional place in sattras, or monasteries, and give them a new, contemporary life.<\/p>\n

About Sattras<\/h2>\n

1.<\/strong>\u00a0Sattras are monastic institutions\u00a0<\/span>established by Srimanta Sankardev<\/span> and his disciples as centres of religious, social and cultural reform.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> Presently, Sattras\u00a0are also centres of traditional performing arts<\/span> such as borgeet (songs), xattriya (dance)<\/span> and bhaona (theatre), which are an integral part of the Sankardev tradition.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> Majuli has 22 sattras,<\/span> and the patent application states that the mask-making tradition is by and large concentrated in four of them<\/span> \u2014 Samaguri Sattra, Natun Samaguri Sattra, Bihimpur Sattra and Alengi Narasimha Sattra.<\/p>\n

About Majuli manuscript painting<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1. It is a form of painting<\/span> originated in the 16th century. <\/span><\/p>\n

2. It is done on sanchi pat, or manuscripts<\/span> made of the bark of the sanchi or agar tree, using homemade ink.<\/p>\n

3. The earliest example of an illustrated manuscript is said to be a rendering of the Adya Dasama of the Bhagwat Purana<\/span> in Assamese by Srimanta Sankardev. <\/span><\/p>\n

4. This art was patronised by the Ahom kings<\/span>. It continues to be practised in every sattra in Majuli.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus: Art and Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source-\u00a0The post on Majuli Masks\u00a0is based on the article \u201cGI tag for Majuli masks of Assam: History, cultural significance of the centuries-old art form\u201d published in\u00a0\u201cIndian Express\u201d on 7th March 2024.\u00a0 What is the News? Recently, Assam\u2019s\u00a0traditional Majuli masks got a GI tag. About Majuli masks 1) About: These are handmade masks that are traditionally… Continue reading Majuli Masks GI Tag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-286210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}