Exhibit of the week- 160
(22nd to 28th June 2023)

Jatri patti
A religious souvenir

Jatri patti is a religious painting meant exclusively for pilgrims. In the olden days pilgrims visiting Puri used to take jatri pattis as souvenirs. Jatri pattis are the earliest form of patta painting. It is painted on both primed paper and clothes of various shapes and sizes. In the case of the jatripattis, the motifs associated with the trinity always occur at the center of the smaller paintings, while the trinity themselves are found inside the temple in comparatively larger paintings. It basically depicts the trinity in different postures and the architecture of the Jagannath temple at Puri.

The main natural colours used in jatripatti are sankha (white), hengula (red), neli (blue), pocha (green), haritala (yellow), kala (black), and geru (ochre). These jatripattis are named differently according to their shape and size, for example, anguthi (circular shape of finger-tip size), gola (circular type), pancha mandiria (depicting five temples), and sankhanavi (depicting the temple's architecture on a conch-shell painting).

Acc.no. 2015.504
Local name - Jatri patti, A religious souvenir
Community- Chitrakar
Locality- Raghurajpur, Dist. Puri, Odisha
Artist- Shri Prabhakar Maharana

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Date: June 22, 2023