Village
huts from the costal area of Andhra Pradesh.Home Indian Trips <<Previous Chennai Next>>
This is a museum centre just outside of Chennai that highlights the traditional arts and craft of the four southern most states of India, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Exhibits included different building styles in the states and artisans demonstrating their skills.
Village
huts from the costal area of Andhra Pradesh.
A
village mud hut from Tamil Nadu
A
reconstruction of more sophisticated buildings from a southern village.
These would have been lived in by Brahmin, members of the highest Hindu Caste.
A
carved door way from one of the houses.
In
this region the native language is Tamil, and this board showed the script has
gradually changed over the centuries. It has a quite different look to the
Hindi that we see in the North.