Cafe Wall Wall Art

Cafe Wall — 9 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Sohrai is a harvest-season wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, painted by women of tribal and Kurmi communities to welcome cattle home after the rice harvest, around Diwali. Lac — the resin secreted by insects on plateau trees — is a forest produce of the region, softened over a flame and rolled into the bright red bangles worn at weddings and festivals. Saura (also Sora or Saora) is one of the oldest Adivasi communities of southern Odisha; the Lanjia Saura sub-group of the Rayagada and Gajapati hills take their name from the lanjia, the rear hair-knot worn by the men, traditionally finished with a comb. They are known for their ritual wall paintings, called ikon or idital, painted by a kuranmaran (shaman-priest) in white rice paste on the deep-maroon inner wall of a house to honour deities and ancestors — for protection, fertility, healing, or remembrance.

Updated 22 Jun 2026