Brass utensils
- British colonial
An 1872 book says river towns carried brass pots and pans from the Odisha coast up the Mahanadi river to Sambalpur. They travelled together with salt, spices and coconuts.
Brass pots and pans rode up the Mahanadi river on the same boats as salt and coconuts.
An 1872 book says river towns carried brass pots and pans up the Mahanadi river to Sambalpur. They probably travelled on the same boats as salt, spices and coconuts. [Hunter, 1872, vol. II Appendix III, p. 74]
For scholars
Only one source documents this, so the tier stops at Probable. Hunter does not say where the brass utensils were made. They moved from the coast inland, but nothing here proves they were made in Odisha, or shows a sea route. [Hunter, 1872, vol. II Appendix III, p. 74]
Facts
- Category
- Metal
- Direction
- Imported into Kalinga
Scholar notes
Only one source documents this, so the tier stops at Probable. Hunter does not say where the brass utensils were made; they moved from the coast inland, but nothing here proves they were manufactured in Odisha or shows a sea route.
- William Wilson Hunter. *Orissa: Or the Vicissitudes of an Indian Province under Native and British Rule*. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1872. public domain , vol. II Appendix III, p. 74 (Mahanadi river towns 'carry salt, spices, cocoa-nuts, and brass utensils up to Sambalpur'.)