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WoodworkGI Tagged · 2005-06
Kondapalli Toys
TownKondapalli
StateAndhra Pradesh
Craft typeWoodwork
GI tag2005-06
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Lightweight wooden toys carved from the local Tella Poniki softwood, hand-painted with vivid natural colours, traditionally depicting mythological figures, village life scenes, and animals in a distinctly rounded, folk-art style.
Did you know? Kondapalli toys are traditionally assembled using a jointed technique — separate carved pieces are pegged together rather than carved as a single block — allowing certain figures' limbs to actually move, a detail unusual among Indian folk toys.