This solitary piece of wooden carving, celebrating the defeat of the Lord Shiva, embodies Goddess Kali, one of the fieriest and most revered deities of Hindus. This work, on the one hand, attests to the extraordinary craftsmanship of the tribesman; on the other hand, it reflects Kali's symbolic victory over the body of Lord Shiva, representing ultimate destruction versus creation. Kali is depicted in the figures with four arms separately holding various symbolic items. These may differ from the actual images, but they typically include a weapon and a demon head, which together present her as the killer of everything evil. The extended tongue is said to evoke the instinctive anger of Kali, which actively destroys egoism and the forces of evil from all over the universe.

Above the neck, beyond the garland of human heads, it stands as a forceful symbol of obliterating ignorance and evil. The whole image while often dark and mysterious nevertheless moves into the domains of transformation, liberation, and the destruction of ego from the perspective of Hindu philosophy.A typical example of a tribal way of interpreting divinity, full of painterly and dynamic expressions, is embedded into the effigy. What lies in front of us is not just an ornament but a ritual object accompanying images of temples, shrines, and festivals acknowledging- Kali, including Kali Puja. The effigy symbolizes the dualism of existence-life and death, creation, and destruction-united by the embrace of Kali with Shiva. The Sutradhar tribe, known for woodwork using sacred and mythological considerations, maintains a tradition of animating spiritual tales in artwork. For the coloring and endowing these figures with aesthetic charms, natural pigments were used.