Ettikoppaka Toy craft

Why in news?

• The Union Government announced to confer Padma Shri to C.V Raju, an Etikoppaka wooden toy craft artists.

About Ettikoppaka Toy craft:

• 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.
• They are provided 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.
• 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.

PRACTICE QUESTION:

Ettikoppaka Toy craft is traditionally associated with which of the following state in India?

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Karnataka

(c) Odisha

(d) Andhra Pradesh

Answer