Bhubaneswar, (BaghuaBarta): A a new initiative of ST&SC Development Department, Odisha State Tribal
Museum goes virtual. Today the audience can visualize the indigenous knowledge system of Kutia Kondh, Traditional Medicinal Practice by opening the Facebook and Twitter page @stscdev, @scstrti. For the Kutia Kondh, their existence is linked with the environment and supernatural powers. They believe, disease is something that affects both body and soul and illness is sort of disturbance in a person’s life-force caused by the
supernatural powers and environmental factors. The healing practices of the community, thus rely on the medicinal efficacy of plants, animals and minerals administered by folk healers by direction of the divine. The film follows Kutia Kondh healers as they collect, process and prescribed their traditional medicines. In doing so, it explores the Kutia Kondh understanding of illness-both of natural and supernatural origin and how they are treated. Kutia Kondh resides in Kalahandi, Kandhamala (Eastern Ghats Region). Their language is Kui. Broom stick making, mat making, basketry, litchi cultivation, tussar rearing, shifting cultivation is their occupation.
Indigenous knowledge system of Kutia Kondh ; Traditional medicinal Practice
