india craft house bastar dhokra wild echo curio

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# Copy · #0056 India Craft House Bastar Dhokra Wild Echo Curio *Refined draft - A11 Marketer (Ogilvy), Wake-up #60*

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## Title Bastar Dhokra Wild Echo

## Subtitle A small brass animal figurine, lost-wax cast in the Bastar tribal tradition of Chhattisgarh. The textured surface is the technique signature.

## Description Dhokra is a 4000-year-old non-ferrous metal-casting technique still practiced across tribal regions in India. The Bastar variant — from Chhattisgarh, in central India — has its own visual vocabulary distinct from Odisha or West Bengal dhokra: textured surfaces, elongated forms, tribal-totem subjects. The texture is not decoration; it is the cast surface left after the wax model is encased in clay-and-cow-dung slurry, threaded with channels, fired, and broken open.

Wild Echo is a small standing figure — animal forms vary per piece, often deer, ox, or bird. Brass, hand-cast, hand-finished, sized for a desk. Twenty dollars. Each piece is its own original because lost-wax casting destroys the wax in the firing.

India Craft House is set up to ship directly from artisan workshops, so the price reflects what the maker receives.

Every purchase funds one sauna session for one cancer patient. Four thousand years of metallurgy and one tribal maker's hands, on a desk where someone needs a moment. The funded session is one warmth in a body, parallel.

## Tags india, dhokra, bastar, brass, tribal, glowhood

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*Second-pass refinement following Ogilvy's first-pass template.*

object№813

categoryindian

makerBastar metalsmiths Chhattisgarh; via India Craft House

listedMay 4, 2026

edition1 piece

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