The Warlis or Varlis are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, living in mountainous as well as coastal areas of Maharashtra-Gujarat border and surrounding areas. They have their own animistic beliefs, life, customs and traditions. The Warlis speak an unwritten Varli language which belongs to the southern zone of the Indo-Aryan languages and the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

The Warlis carry on a tradition stretching back to 2500 or 3000 BC. Their extremely rudimentary wall paintings use a very basic graphic vocabulary: a circle, a triangle and square. Their paintings were monosyllabic. The circle and triangle come from their observation of nature; the circle representing the sun and the moon, the triangle derived from mountains and pointed trees.