Dr Serge Le GUIRREC : In the very beginning of this research there is a visit with to the Rashtriya Manav Sanghralay museum of Bhopal, the museum of the Man. This museum is very famous in India and very well known among anthropologists, it is about forty hectares large where numbers of tribal habitats were reconstructed as originals ones. In the covered part of the museum take place objects from the daily and cultural life and number of art pieces from many tribes of India.
The shock for me was to see the reconstitution of a tribal house with clay relief art of Sarguja. It is a small house which two separate spaces, an external one and an interior one then a small corridor, and in the centre the dwelling house. On the external enclosing walls, one finds kinds of engraved signs reproduced with clay which are exactly the same ones as those that I have studied 40 years ago in the megalithic tradition in Brittany. We find the same analogy on paintings, objects and weavings.
Here is the starting point of this research on the comparative studies between the knowledge acquired by the Armorican megalithicians then spread on the Earth and the knowledge that obviously the people of the Indian tribes still have in them, this meeting was a shock. Another question quickly arose: which is the nature of the psychic structures present in these tribes, which allows the production of an art which seems to come from a forgotten knowledge.
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