"Krishna Leela": central panel of a temple cloth hanging painted in vegetable colours at Kalahasti (courtesy National Museum, New Delhi) (Census of India 1961, Selected Crafts of Andhra Pradesh, 1964, frontispiece)

Black-and-white photograph of a painted cloth: a dark-skinned Krishna sits in the centre among women, under a row of arches, with a border of small scenes all round.
Black-and-white photograph of a painted cloth: a dark-skinned Krishna sits in the centre among women, under a row of arches, with a border of small scenes all round.
Type
Textile
Creator
A. Chandra Sekhar (Superintendent of Census Operations, Andhra Pradesh), Selected Crafts of Andhra Pradesh, 1964 (photograph courtesy National Museum, New Delhi)
Date
1964
Licence
Public domain in India
From
A. Chandra Sekhar (Census of India), Census of India 1961, Vol. II: Andhra Pradesh, Part VII-A (i): Selected Crafts of Andhra Pradesh (opens in a new tab), 1964, frontispiece (PDF p. 4; printed sideways, turned upright)
Original
censusindia.gov.in (opens in a new tab)
Appears in
Andhra State & Andhra Pradesh, Srikalahasti, Crafts & textiles, Telugu folk arts: burrakatha, harikatha, yakshaganam and more