Demani, an artisan’s ward in Cuncolim, is famous for its wooden handicrafts. Today, only a few Chitari families still carry on this unique craft of making traditional wooden items, a tradition that has been passed on from one generation to the next.
Chitari objects can be found in almost all Goan Hindu homes, whether in the form of a low wooden seat, or paat, or the low pedestal, or chaurang, on which the Ganesh idol is placed, or as wooden fruits that hang from a matoli, or wooden canopy suspended from the ceiling during the festivities.
Click the link to watch Suhas Chari painting a ‘paat’.
https://youtu.be/A9k5rvEZ8pY
