The book is a product of several years of the author’s experience of life among the tribes of the north-east. Sujata Miri has painted in many different styles; however, the particular style of paining, which is more or less uniformly evident in the paintings reproduced in this volume, is not the result of a conceptually planned scheme, but comes spontaneously from the depth of her mainly intuitive musings about tribal imagination and creativity. Perhaps it was her dissatisfaction with abstract discursive, stereotypic descriptions of life in tribal India that led her to take to painting in this particular genre and rely on her intuitive understanding of things rather than philosophical and anthropological ratiocination. The point that is being forcefully made is that tribal life can be articulated perhaps with much greater authenticity through the medium of painting than that through words. The paintings are, of course, also meant to be enjoyed just as paintings, and not simply as depicting some form of life or other.