Apart from promoting fertility, what other purposes do Warli paintings serve?

1) Entertainment
2) Disease prevention
3) Sports
4) Cooking

2

Answer: Disease prevention

The Warli community inhabit the west coast of Northern Maharashtra around the north Sahyadri range with a large concentration in the district of Thane. Married women play a central role in creating their most important painting called Chowk to mark special occasions.

The Warli paintings are traditionally painted with rice flour on earth-coloured walls of their homes. They are painted to promote fertility, these paintings avert diseases, propitiate the dead, and fulfill the demands of spirits. A bamboo stick, chewed at the end, is used as the paintbrush.