- These are traditional toys of Andhra Pradesh
- These traditional toys are made by artisans in Etikoppaka village located on banks of river Varaha in Visakhapatnam district of the state.
- They are provide GI Tag.
- The art of making traditional wooden Etikoppaka toys is more than 400 years old and it has been traditionally handed over to them by their ancestors through generations.
- The art of this toy making is also known as turned wood Lacquer craft.
- The toys are unique in shape and form.
- They are made of wood and painted with natural dyes.
- The wood used is from ‘Ankudi Karra’ (Wrightia tinctoria) tree that is soft in nature.
- The natural dyes are prepared from seeds, lacquer, bark, roots and leaves.
- These dynes are unique as they do not have heavy metal or toxic content in it.
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