Manasa chali: Difference between revisions

'''Manasa chali,''' or ''Manasa bari,'' is a type of idol of Debi [[Manasa]] made of [[Terracota]] in [[Panchmura]], [[West Bengal, India]]. It typically features a small figure or a group of three figures in the middle with rows of [[snake]] hoods fanning out in a half moon shape.<ref name="Dasgupta 2009">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0_o9Qj1LOEC&q=manasa+chali&pg=PR12|title=Heritage Tourism: An Anthropological Journey to Bishnupur|last1=Dasgupta|first1=Samira|last2=Biswas|first2=Rabiranjan|last3=Mallik|first3=Gautam Kumar|date=2009|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=9788183242943|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Satra|first=Tarapada|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.265787|title=Paschimbanger Lokshilpa O Shilpisamaj|date=|publisher=Lokosanskriti o Adibasi Sanskriti Kendra|year=December 2000|pages=63-64}}</ref> ''Chali'' or ''bari'' is [[Bengali language|Bengali]] for 'the shade of something'. ''Chali'' is referred to here as 'the shade of idol' or 'the besh of idol', like [[Chalchitra]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://seemaawasthiblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/panchmura-terracotta-craft-become-the-symbol-of-indian-folk-art/|title=Panchmura terracotta craft become the symbol of Indian folk-art|date=2016-07-03|work=Hand Made Toys|access-date=2018-08-05|language=en-US}}</ref> These idols have two basic colors, reddish-yellow and black.<ref name="Dasgupta 2009" />