Hakkak
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beads, a lapidary; an occupation usually followed by Mahomedans. | beads, a lapidary; an occupation usually followed by Mahomedans. | ||
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| + | Workmen employed in manufacturing glass beads call them-selves by this name, but the real lapidary is rare, while the Muhammadan Sang-tarash, or stone-cutter, is unknown in Dacca. | ||
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| + | The Hakkak makes spectacles of rock crystal (Sang-billaur), cuts glass in imitation of diamonds, and gives the desired shape to gems. His implements are a wheel driven backwards and forwards with the left hand, a wire bow, and emery powder (Kuranj-pathar). | ||
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| + | Muhammadans engaged in making glass beads obtain their material from the Shisha-gar. It is stained with various colours and beads for necklaces, ornaments for nose rings, and counterfeit stones for armlets and rings, are made with it. The following five kinds of wheels are used in a manufactory for grinding and polishing glass: the first, called "Karan," is made of slate; the second of bell-metal (Kansa); the third of teak wood; the fourth of tin, and the fifth of flint (Chakmak). A bamboo bow strung with an iron wire, and rubbed with moistened emery powder, is employed for cutting glass. | ||
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This section has been extracted from THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. Ethnographic Glossary. Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. . |
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A maker of glass a maker of glass yoking a pair of bullocks in their beads, a lapidary; an occupation usually followed by Mahomedans.
[edit] Notes
Workmen employed in manufacturing glass beads call them-selves by this name, but the real lapidary is rare, while the Muhammadan Sang-tarash, or stone-cutter, is unknown in Dacca.
The Hakkak makes spectacles of rock crystal (Sang-billaur), cuts glass in imitation of diamonds, and gives the desired shape to gems. His implements are a wheel driven backwards and forwards with the left hand, a wire bow, and emery powder (Kuranj-pathar).
Muhammadans engaged in making glass beads obtain their material from the Shisha-gar. It is stained with various colours and beads for necklaces, ornaments for nose rings, and counterfeit stones for armlets and rings, are made with it. The following five kinds of wheels are used in a manufactory for grinding and polishing glass: the first, called "Karan," is made of slate; the second of bell-metal (Kansa); the third of teak wood; the fourth of tin, and the fifth of flint (Chakmak). A bamboo bow strung with an iron wire, and rubbed with moistened emery powder, is employed for cutting glass.
