also practiced by their relations, who found a domicile in Hanavar, Kumpta, Sirsi, Siddapur, Biligi, and Banavasi in the North Canara district. But the work of the latter is said to be by no means so fine as that executed by the artisans of Sorab and Sagar. The artisans of North Canara, however, excel in pith-work of the most exquisite beauty. They usually make basingas, i.e., special forehead ornaments, richly inlaid with pearls, and worn on the occasion of marriage. The delicate tools used by the wood-carvers are made from European umbrella spokes, ramrods, and country steel. The main stimulus, which the art receives from time to time at the present day, is from orders from the Government, corporate public bodies, or Maharajas, for address boxes, cabinets, and other articles specially ordered for presentations, or for the various fine-art exhibition, for which high prices are paid." In conversation with the workmen from Sorab and Sagar for work in the palace which is being built for H. H. the Maharaja of Mysore, it was elicited that there are some Gudigars, who, from want of a due taste for the art, never acquire it, but are engaged in carpentry and turning. Others, having acquired land, are engaged in cultivation, and fast losing all touch with the art. At Udipi in South Canara, some Gudigars make for sale large wooden buffaloes and human figures, which are presented as votive offerings at the Iswara temple at Hiriadkap. They also make wooden dolls and painted clay figures.