Pithora is a highly ritualistic painting done on the walls by several tribes like Rathwas, Bhilals, and Naykas, who live in
the central Gujarat, ninety kilometers from Vadodara, in a village called Tejgadh. In several other villages around Tejgadh
and Chhota Udaipur taluka of Vadodara district, lives a large population of these tribes where we find Pithora paintings
on three inner walls of the house. These paintings have significance in their lives and executing the Pithora paintings in
their homes brings peace, prosperity and happiness. What is even more interesting is that there is never an attempt to
imitate nature. A horse or a bull, which might be a vision of a God, impresses him with only one central quality. This
central quality is worked upon and given a form. It might be crude but it is this crudity that adds to the beauty of this
painting.
