Virtual Tour Of Dharua Textiles & Dhokra Craft 41
Bhubaneswar: Visitors can visit the Dharua Textiles and Dhokra Craft during the virtual tour to State Tribal Museum on 13th December by opening the Twitter and Facebook page @ scstrti, @stscdev.
The Dharua community mainly resides in Malkangiri, Nawarangapur, Bolangir districts. Their major occupation are cultivation, forest collection, basketry and agriculture labour. They observe festivals like Lendipanda, Ghia Panda, Goesendia Hia.
The Dharua are one of the Gondi Tribe and otherwise referred to as Dharua Gonds. They are polytheists and their pantheon includes a number of tribal deities such as Estipal, Gramsiti, Garam, Ramkin, Barapahar, Buradeo etc. and Hindu deities like Jagannath, Laxmi, Mahadev, Kali, Durga, Sital and Manasa.