Dhokra work or the lost wax technique has been in use for 4500 years and the earliest example was the famous dancing girl found at Mohenjo-daro made during the Indus Valley Civilisation. This piece is now in the National Museum, New Delhi.

This wonderful brass tribal head is modern and was made in the Baster district in Chhattisgarh where the technique continues to flourish in villages in and around  Kondagaon. Sadly this area is better known now for being part of the ‘Red Corridor’ due to extensive Naxalite-Maoist insurgency.