Description
The term “Dhrishti” is the `eye gaze’ and “Bommai”, a Tamil term for a doll. As the Doll is the remover of `evil eyes’ it is known as `Drishi Bommai‘.
Drishti Bommais are connected to a baffling array of objects, actions and rituals that have evolved in the lush atmosphere of India’s religions and superstitions.
‘Bommai’ is the term for ‘doll’ in Tamil language which is the mother Dravidian languages and ‘Bomma’ is used in languages such as Malayalam and Kannada which are also Dravidian languages but they were in fact derived from the former and relatively new languages compared to Tamil.
The wooden hand painted Drishti Bommai . There is a one hole on the back of the Drishti mask to hang the mask flat in to the wall.
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