Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.

1 drawing : gouache, with oxidised gold and silver

The caste that usually make baskets in Madras, Tamil Nadu, South India are the Metha Koran. Though basket-making and mat-making are clean arts, they are genearlly practised by the aboriginal castes whose low social status is due more the fact of their aboriginal background

Wellcome Collection 28307i

A series depicting the castes of Thanjavur, South India. The caste system in India is the Hindu hereditary classes. This series represents the castes usually in a couple with the wares of their trade or at their occupations. They are gouache drawings, some with the addition of gold and oxidised silver