5/5 dr. ratnesh kumar s. 3 years ago on Google
Sometime
in
the
year
2011,
at
a
meeting
of
bureaucrats,
archaeologists,
anthropologists
and
sociologists
at
Bhopal, Bhil
painter
Bhuribai asked,
“Shouldn’t
a
tribal
museum
be
made
by
the
tribals
themselves?”
In
response
Shriram
Tiwari,
Director,
Culture
Department,
Madhya
Pradesh,
formed
a
team
of
tribal
scholars
and
artistes,
determined
to
build
something
rooted
in
the
tribal
imagination,
instead
of
a
monotonous
display
of
classified
artefacts,
without
context.
With
grants
mostly
from
the
State,
but
also
from
the
Central
Government,
the Madhya
Pradesh
Tribal
Museum has
taken
shape.
Not
as
a
storehouse
of
dead
objects,
but
with
the
labours
of
a
thousand
tribal
artistes
arriving
in
batches,
from
every
part
of
MP,
recasting
myth
and
life
in
amazing
visuals,
out
of
traditional
materials
like
wood,
iron,
jute,
mud,
clay,
straw,
hemp
and
leaves,
as
well
as
canvas,
acrylic
and
glass.
Such
is
the
sense
of
ownership
of
these
tribal
artisans,
that
when
recently
rains
flooded
the
museum
the
residing
tribal
artistes
didnt
wait
for
instructions
but
salvaged
everything
themselves.