A pair of hand-cast brass figures — a tribal woman carrying a water pot on her head, and a man balancing two pots on a shoulder yoke — made by a tribal artisan in India using Dhokra technique that is over 4,000 years old.

What is Dhokra? Dhokra is an ancient lost-wax metalcasting technique practised by tribal communities across central and eastern India. The artisan builds your piece entirely in beeswax by hand — every elongated limb, every coil of the cylindrical base, every expression pressed in by thumb and tool. That wax sculpture is wrapped in clay and fired. The heat melts the wax away, leaving a hollow cavity in the exact shape of the piece. Molten brass is poured in to fill it. Once cooled, the clay mould is broken open by hand — and destroyed. No mould is ever used twice.

What does GI-tagged mean? Dhokra is GI-tagged — a Government of India certification that works like a protected designation of origin, similar to Champagne in France or Stilton in England. It is a guarantee of provenance: that this piece is authentic, made by tribal artisan communities using traditional methods passed down across generations. Not a factory. Not a machine. Hands that have carried this craft for 4,000 years.

About this piece These are not mythological figures. They are everyday people — the woman carrying water home on her head, the man balancing his load across a shoulder pole. Adivasi tribal communities across India have made this walk for thousands of years. This pair makes it visible, permanent, and worthy of the shelf space it deserves. There is a dignity in ordinary labour that fine art rarely captures. Dhokra does. The elongated, wire-thin forms are not crude — they are a visual language developed over centuries by artisans who understood that the human figure in motion is already beautiful. Each figure is cast separately, broken from its own unique mould. They belong together — but they are never identical.

Sustainably Made, Naturally Rooted From the clay of the fields to the wax of the forests, every element is drawn from nature. No factories. No moulds replicated by machine. Just hands, tradition, and earth.

Ethically Sourced, Artisan-Centric We work directly with the artisans who make these pieces, ensuring fair compensation and honouring their craft. We never bargain with the hands that create magic.