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Bastar · Central Highlands & Forest Belt
Everyday dress here is minimal and unstitched, and the region's textile identity sits almost entirely in metal, seed and feather rather than in weaving. What Bastar puts its craft into is the ornament and the ceremonial headdress — brass and bell-metal neck rings, cowrie work, and the gaur-horn crown of the Dandami Maria, which is a piece of engineering as much as a costume. Kosa (tussar) silk is reeled and woven in the region, but Chhattisgarh's registered Kosa geographical indication belongs to Champa in the north, not here.
क्या पहना जाता है
A single unstitched cotton cloth, usually coarse and short, wrapped without a blouse in the older village style and knotted at the shoulder. Bought at the haat by the piece; the border colour is often the only marker of a household's means.
किस मौके पर: Everyday
A short dhoti wrapped between the legs for forest work, with a gamchha over the shoulder used as towel, head-pad, sling and carrying cloth.
किस मौके पर: Everyday
A pair of real gaur horns mounted on a cane cap, faced with cowrie shells and topped with a plume of bird feathers and fibre. It is heavy, balanced by the neck rather than by a strap, and the dance step exists in part to keep it stable.
किस मौके पर: Dance, marriage, Madai and Dussehra
Bands of cowrie shell, glass bead and brass bell worn across the chest and at the waist, so the dancer is audible as well as visible. Cowries reach a landlocked plateau by trade, which is exactly why they carry value here.
किस मौके पर: Madai, marriage, Dussehra
Coarse-textured undyed tussar in its natural fawn, woven in and around Kondagaon and Jagdalpur, worn where a household can afford to mark an occasion.
किस मौके पर: Weddings and Dussehra
बुनाई और कपड़े
Silk reeled from Antheraea cocoons reared on sal, saja and arjun in the local forest, woven plain or with a simple band. Chhattisgarh's Kosa geographical indication covers Champa Silk Sarees and Fabrics in Janjgir-Champa; the Bastar cloth is the same fibre without that protection.
Tattooing, not cloth, but functionally the region's oldest surface design — geometric marks applied to women's arms, legs and face by itinerant Badni and Ghasia tattooists, formerly at fixed points in the life cycle. The same motif vocabulary appears on Dhokra and on wall painting, which is how the designs are read across media.
Agave fibre stripped, dried and knotted or coiled into mats, bags and figures. A twentieth-century introduction rather than an inherited craft, and now a substantial cottage industry around Kondagaon.
गहने
Bastar का पारंपरिक पहनावा — कपड़े, हथकरघा बुनाई, जीआई टैग वाले वस्त्र और गहने। (8)