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lang="ml">പൂതംകളി</span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category">Folk dance</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a>, India</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Poothamkali</b> is folk art form in the state of <a href="/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a>, India. This art form uses various types of decorations in the costume. It is usually performs in the <a href="/wiki/Bhagavati" title="Bhagavati">Bhagavathy</a> temples of <a href="/wiki/Malappuram_district" title="Malappuram district">Malappuram district</a>. It is based on the myth of <a href="/wiki/Durga" title="Durga">Durga</a> and her combat with <a href="/wiki/Darika" title="Darika">Darika</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performing">Performing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poothamkali&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Performing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Poothamkali is performed with various footsteps. The performers who wears <i>chilanka</i>, an anklet uses for dance dances according to the rhythm of a musical instrument named <i>thudi</i>. The dancing is very slow at the beginning and then the pace increases. This needs a good body flexibility. Usually this art form is performed by <i>Mannans</i>, a community in Kerala.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Costume">Costume</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poothamkali&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Costume"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Poothamkali has diversity in costumes and ornaments used. The costume resembles to that of <a href="/wiki/Kathakali" title="Kathakali">Kathakali</a>. <a href="/wiki/Peacock_feather" class="mw-redirect" title="Peacock feather">Peacock feathers</a>, cloth, silk, canes, mirror, papers with various colours and bamboo are used for the decoration. The performers wears different ornament in <a href="/wiki/Neck" title="Neck">neck</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waist" title="Waist">waist</a>. They also wears special <a href="/wiki/Bangle" title="Bangle">bangles</a> with thorns in wrists and shoulders. This ornaments are wearing above a red cloth. </p><p>Peacock's feathers are used instead of hairs. They wears a crown along with a coloured mask made up of wood. In this mask the tongue is stretched outwards. This represents the anger and rage of <a href="/wiki/Shiva" title="Shiva">Shiva</a>'s soldiers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The colourful crown is semicircular in shape. 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