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* Title: Bird God
* Artist: Jetaya Batur
* Dimensions: H 40cm X W 29cm
* Medium: Acrylic on paper

The artist is a tribal painter from the Gond tribe in Central India. This is a depiction of a local indigenous deity.

Adivasi means original inhabitant in HIndi.

These paintings provide a supplementary income outlet for the artists and their communties, who live mainly on subsistence farming. Traditionally these paintings are done on the walls of their huts to celebrate weddings, births, harvests and religious festivals.

The adivasis' Gods are often depicted in an animistic form through nature,trees, birds and beasts, rather than deities.