{"id":152,"date":"2007-07-03T12:14:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissawatch.org\/Infra\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-07-03T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T16:23:25","slug":"copper-snakes-made-in-bouda-district-used-all-over-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/152","title":{"rendered":"Copper snakes made in Bouda district used all over India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyindia.com\/show\/153825.php\/An-Orissa-village-known-for-its-copper-snakes\">DailyIndia.com reports<\/a> about a village in Bouda district where artisans make copper snakes that are used in temples all over India. Following are excerpts from that report.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"verdanamb\">Gudbhelipadar Village in Orissa&#8217;s Bouda District is today known for its dozens of coppersmith families who have gained popularity for their copper snakes used in different parts of the country.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Each of these over forty families takes pride in the fact that it has been successful at carrying forward a legacy despite all odds. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"verdanamb\">These coppersmith families belong to Maharana caste and locally known as &#8220;Meher&#8221;. They have been involved in this work of making copper snakes since ages. All these years, these families have cherished a dream to keep the ancestral art alive. &#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"verdanamb\"><em>Praful Kumar, another artisan, said: &#8220;First, we cut the copper sheet in different body parts of snake, we heat them up. After that, we bend the copper from where we want to and at that time we need lead. We bend it using lead and give it final look.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"verdanamb\"><em>Snakes prepared in this village have been placed in various famous temples. Besides various parts of Orissa, these snakes are sent to various places like Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and various places in Madhya Pradesh, <span class=\"verdanamb\">Chattisgarh<\/span> and Andhra Pradesh<\/em>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DailyIndia.com reports about a village in Bouda district where artisans make copper snakes that are used in temples all over India. Following are excerpts from that report. Gudbhelipadar Village in Orissa&#8217;s Bouda District is today known for its dozens of coppersmith families who have gained popularity for their copper snakes used in different parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,152,143,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-boudha","category-cottage-industry","category-rural-programs","category-rural-artisan-villages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}