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Listen: The Latin ProgramKindergarten student watching Prema Kumar give a rice flour painting demonstration - Jacksonville, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
Series 1577, Folk Arts in Education : Duval County - 1992; no 66
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Projects, Instate
Teaching of folklore
Ethnicity, Asian
Ethnicity, Indian
Decorative arts
Material culture--Florida--Duval County--Jacksonville
Asian American arts
Ethnic arts
East Indian art
House marks--India
Kolam (House marks)
Kindergarten
East Indian women--Florida--Duval County--Jacksonville
East Indians--Florida--Duval County--Jacksonville
African American school children--Florida--Duval County--Jacksonville
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
Kolam is a traditional East Indian art form. It consists of patterns and designs created on a flat surface using rice and rice flour trickled with fingers. This was traditionally performed each morning by Indian women outside their home, partly as decoration, partly for use as a bird feeder.
Possibly at the John E. Ford Elementary School in Jacksonville.
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