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 mentions the names of Ismail Khan and Ghulam Husain Khan as the best miniature painters of Delhi at the time he wrote, 1872.

Mica is worked in the north of Khurruckdiha in Chota Nagpur, and exported both to Calcutta and Bihar in large quantity, both for painting and for the ornamentation of the beautiful tazzias, or tabuts , the models of the tombs of Hasan and Husain at Kerbela, which are borne in the annual procession of the Moharram by the Shiah Mahommedans of India.

Miscellaneous Small Wares.

Trhiketry. — In all parts of India imitation jewelry and other trinketry, already referred to under ivory carving, lac work, &c., are made. In Dacca, bracelets are also made from chank shells, imported from the Maidive and Laccadive islands. They are sawn into semicircular pieces which are joined together, and carved and inlaid with a red composition. The manufacture of shell bracelets in Sylhet gives employment to a large number of people. At Poona and other places bracelets and necklaces and chains are made of some sort of perfumed composition, and also of various seeds, as the scarlet and black seeds of the ganja or gunck [Abrus precatorius], the flat black seeds of the talapota or turwar [Cassia auriculata], the red seeds of the rukta chandan or red saunders [Adenanthera Pavonina], the mottled seed of the supari or betel-nut palm [Areca Catechu], the oval seeds of the bhirli ?nar [Caryota urens], and the deeply sulcated seeds of the rudraksh [Elaeocarpus Ganitrus], which are also worn as a necklace by the Saivas and Mahommedan fakirs.

The manufacture of mock ornaments for the idols is a very prosperous industry in most large Indian cities. These ornaments