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The Sikki craft of the Mithila region is made from

  1. A.Split bamboo strips
  2. B.A golden coloured grass
  3. C.Lac resin
  4. D.Palm leaf

Correct answer

B. A golden coloured grass

Explanation

The correct answer is B, a golden coloured grass. Sikki is a reed grass of the wetlands of north Bihar whose stalks turn a bright golden colour when dried. The women of Mithila split and dye the grass, then coil and stitch it into baskets, round boxes called pauti that are given to a bride, toys, idols and fans. The craft belongs to the same households that paint Madhubani, and the golden shine of the finished article is its signature.

Option A, split bamboo, is used for mats, baskets and the frame of the Manjusha box, but not for Sikki work. Option C, lac resin, is the material of the lahthi bangles of Muzaffarpur, a separate craft. Option D, palm leaf, is used for mats and manuscripts in eastern India but is not the Sikki material. The word to remember is grass, and the region is Mithila.

Read the full article: Madhubani, Manjusha and Other Art Forms of Bihar: Styles and Facts

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Q1.BiharEasy

Madhubani painting belongs to which region of Bihar?

  1. A.Anga, around Bhagalpur
  2. B.Mithila, in the north
  3. C.Magadh, around Gaya
  4. D.Bhojpur, in the west
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Correct answer: B. Mithila, in the north

Madhubani painting is also called Mithila painting because it grew in the Mithila region of northern Bihar, chiefly in the districts of Madhubani and Darbhanga, and the form takes its common name from the first of these districts.

Q2.BiharMedium

Manjusha art, which narrates the legend of Bihula and Bishahari, belongs to which district of Bihar?

  1. A.Madhubani
  2. B.Bhagalpur
  3. C.Gaya
  4. D.Patna
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Correct answer: B. Bhagalpur

Manjusha art belongs to Bhagalpur and the Angika-speaking country around it. The paintings are made on the manjusha, a temple-shaped box built of bamboo strips and jute paper, which is carried in procession during the Bihula-Bishahari festival of the rainy season, and the panels tell the story of Bihula and…

Q4.BiharMedium

In Mithila tradition, the kohbar ghar on whose wall the painting is made is

  1. A.the nuptial chamber of a newly married couple
  2. B.the kitchen of the house
  3. C.the cattle shed
  4. D.the village shrine
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Correct answer: A. the nuptial chamber of a newly married couple

The kohbar ghar is the room in which the bride and bridegroom are brought together after the wedding, and its wall carries the kohbar painting, a composition of the lotus with its ring of leaves, the bamboo grove, fish, parrots and the sun and moon, all of them symbols of…

Q5.BiharHard

Tikuli art of Patna originally decorated which object?

  1. A.Earthen pottery
  2. B.The bindi worn on the forehead
  3. C.Temple doors
  4. D.Palm leaf manuscripts
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Correct answer: B. The bindi worn on the forehead

Tikuli takes its name from the tikuli or tikli, the decorated dot worn by women on the forehead, which was once made at Patna out of thin glass fused with gold foil and coloured enamel.