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| | Traditional Crafts of Orissa - India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The papier-mâché art of Puri, Chikti Barpali, Parlakhamedi (Ganjam district), and a few villages around Cuttack has unusual features. |
 | | Elsewhere in the state, in small places such as Behrampur and Belguntha (in Ganjam district), Tarva (Bolangir district), Chandanpur, Phulbani, and Kantilo are scattered some 15,000 families who specialise in producing a variety of brass and bell metal craft objects, which exhibit extraordinary craftsmanship. |
 | | Wood turned articles using the creamish 'gambhari' and the harder and darker sisu or rose wood is a specialty of the artisans from Daspalla area in Puri district. |
| www.bharatheritage.in /orissa/traditional_crafts.htm (1550 words) |
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