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An engraver in gold, silver or copper. The pattern is traced in wax with a sharp style and afterwards cut out with a chisel. Patterns in relief are made by beating thin metal (In wooden blocks placed underneath. The Chira•Kash are usually Mahomedans, but some belong to the Kayasth, Tanti, and Sunri castes. | An engraver in gold, silver or copper. The pattern is traced in wax with a sharp style and afterwards cut out with a chisel. Patterns in relief are made by beating thin metal (In wooden blocks placed underneath. The Chira•Kash are usually Mahomedans, but some belong to the Kayasth, Tanti, and Sunri castes. | ||
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Individuals belonging to the Kayasth, Sonar, Tanti, and Saha castes, but chiefly Muhammadans, earn a livelihood by engraving on gold, silver, or copper in the following manner. A plate, or salver, being fixed to a bench with wax, the pattern is traced with a sharp style and afterwards cut out with a chisel. The Chira-Kash also make patterns in relief by the crude method of placing wooden blocks underneath, and beating the thin metal on them. | Individuals belonging to the Kayasth, Sonar, Tanti, and Saha castes, but chiefly Muhammadans, earn a livelihood by engraving on gold, silver, or copper in the following manner. A plate, or salver, being fixed to a bench with wax, the pattern is traced with a sharp style and afterwards cut out with a chisel. The Chira-Kash also make patterns in relief by the crude method of placing wooden blocks underneath, and beating the thin metal on them. | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:20, 12 November 2017
This article is an extract from
THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. Ethnographic Glossary. Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. . |
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[edit] Chira-Kash
An engraver in gold, silver or copper. The pattern is traced in wax with a sharp style and afterwards cut out with a chisel. Patterns in relief are made by beating thin metal (In wooden blocks placed underneath. The Chira•Kash are usually Mahomedans, but some belong to the Kayasth, Tanti, and Sunri castes. Individuals belonging to the Kayasth, Sonar, Tanti, and Saha castes, but chiefly Muhammadans, earn a livelihood by engraving on gold, silver, or copper in the following manner. A plate, or salver, being fixed to a bench with wax, the pattern is traced with a sharp style and afterwards cut out with a chisel. The Chira-Kash also make patterns in relief by the crude method of placing wooden blocks underneath, and beating the thin metal on them.
