Standing Figure
 


 
Size  22cm
Type A standing male figure. One arm is glued.
  The Mahlia-Kond live in the area of Orissa in the north-east of India.  From the  middle of the 19th till the beginning of the 20th century nomadic blacksmiths           manufactured these statues  for the Kond in cire perdue (lost wax) technique.       

                                                                                                                              The core is made out of clay.    

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