This is the smallest Figure, Tamsik, evokes a sense of anger with its furious eyes and sorrowful lips, illustrating the adverse consequences of being ensnared in compliance and negative habits. This depiction sets a paralle of Tamsik with Pataal lok and serves as a reminder for another major emotion of human life. Cheriyal Figure are a counterpart of the better known Cheriyal scroll paintings. They have been important props in India's historical storytelling tradition. The face masks represented the life-sized characters who appeared in the tales of Telangana's wandering storytellers especially during village fairs or ‘Jataras’ as they were called in local folklore. While the bigger masks were stage props by the storyteller, smaller version of them were sold to the people as memorabilia.