Suzan-Gar
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THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. Ethnographic Glossary. Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. . |
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Suzan-Gar
The artizans of this name manufacture with brass wire, pins, linked chains, finger-rings with bead setting, earrings, nose-rings, and tethers for tame parrots. Formerly they also made needles, but English ones are so vastly superior that no others are now used. They repair broken china and glass with gluten, sugar, and bands of wire.
The Suzan-gars have learned the art of plating in Calcutta, and gild in the following manner: A pot containing a solution of potash is wanned over a fire, and a brass ring tied to a piece of gold with a copper wire is immersed in it for five or six minutes, when it is removed, washed, and placed in the sun, and the gilding is complete.
The Suzan-gar often keeps a "Manihari," or huckster's shop, where miscellaneous stores are sold.
