Wellcome Collection
Basket weavers. Gouache drawing.
Unknown artist
Lettering: 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.
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