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The water fetching pots are designed after experience of thousands of users since time unknown. They were thought suitable while lifting on head shoulder, hip or back. The wooden frame with coir netting was used to carry water on donkey's back . While the huge pot with lid was meant to fetch water in a bullock cart. Built in 1981 within the vicinity of Vishalla Village Restaurant is the VECHAAR (Vishalla Environmental Centre for Heritage of Art, Architecture and Research) Utensils Museum, a brainchild of architect Mr. Surender C. Patel. It is an effort to cherish and preserve our rich cultural heritage and rare artistic skills and wisdom of our craftsmen. It is an extensive study of utensils from thousand years old to present times, that have evolved over different periods of history as a
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