Standing Figure
 

 
Size 8cm

 
Type A standing male figure.

 
  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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