PANJURLI WITH NAGA ADORNMENT Provenance:India - Coastal Karnataka This elaborately dressed and bejewelled

This elaborately dressed and bejewelled man mounted on a pedestal is from Kerala and is believed to have been made using Lost Wax technique

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The antique glass has etching in a free hand pattern all over

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PANJURLI WITH NAGA ADORNMENT Provenance:India - Coastal Karnataka This elaborately dressed and bejewelledPANJURLI WITH NAGA ADORNMENT This ancient mask is a precious collectible of Panjurli. Panjurli is the divine spirit of a male wild boar worshipped as a part of Bhuta Kola. Panjurli in Tulu means a wild boar offspring. In Tululand many wildboars used to destroy cultivated crops of farmers and hence farmers started worshipping the spirits of wildboars. This was probably later absorbed in Hinduism through the following story. As per Paddanas the ancient