sexta-feira, 7 de março de 2025

Mulheres do Nepal

 


Começa assim: «Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, CPF celebrates one of its many women-led projects.  
In Nepal, Janakpur Women's Development Center is preserving and reviving Maithil women’s paintings and mud art heritage, a form of earthen architecture used to decorate mud houses with imagery that represents Maithil religious traditions. 
Elephants, peacocks, fish, turtles and lotus are just some of the symbols which Maithil women in Nepal traditionally featured in paintings and in mud bas relief on their houses in villages around Janakpur.  This ritual and decorative practice was a custom passed down from mothers to daughters for hundreds of years. (...)».


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