Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya organised a demonstration of traditional iron smelting by Virjiya tribe of Jharkhand, today at Traditioal Technology Park with support from Pyara Kerketa Institute. Through this traditional furnace an overview of intellectual and creative skills of simple societies is presented.
Through this furnace IGRMS is highlighting the fact to the contemporary world that a significant part of present technical splendor is due to traditional technical knowledge. The naturally found iron ore used for extracting liquid iron by heating at 1600c using wooden coal.
The installation of this traditional tribal furnace is result of research by programme coordinator, Dr Soma Kiro (Assistant Curator), Rashmi Shukla (Museum Associate) and Preetam Choudhary (Museum Assistant). It has been installed with support of Vandana Tete. The ground breaking ritual was done by Prof Sarit Kumar Choudhary (Director, IGRMS) in presence of huge audience.
Meanwhile, the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya is organising ‘Aadi Sarjana’ a two-day long festival on Tribal Art and Craft on Monday and Tuesday at IGRMS Campus. In this festival craft fair, ethnic cuisine and traditional tribal dance will be performed.
The tribal craft demonstration and sale will be open from 10.30am to 5.30 pm. The ethnic food festival will start from 1 pm at Tribal Habitat exhibition area and Cultural performance of traditional tribal dances is from 6.30 pm at Veethi Sankul Open Air Auditorium.