Kummatti is the famous colourful mask - dance of Kerala, South Malabar in particular.
During the festival of Onam, Kummattikkali performers move from house to house collecting small gifts and entertaining people.
They don a heavily painted wooden mask depicting faces of Krishna, Narada, Kiratha, Darika or hunters.
Dancers wear skirts woven out of plaited grass. Some performers cover their whole body with bunches of grass for a bushy appearance.
Dancers also hold and manipulate long sticks of residuary agricultural produce called 'Kummattikali', it is from this that the dance derives its name.
Rhythm for the dance movements is provided by vibrating the string of a bow like instrument called onavillu.
Arecanut wood is used to make the bow and strings are beaten with a narrow bamboo stick.
Themes of Kummattikkali are mostly taken from the stories of Ramayana, Darika Vadham, the story of Shiva and folk tales.
Kummatti dances are more rampant in Thrissur District during Onam.
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