Beautiful golden and red tone wooden Tikka Box. Beautiful home decor item to style coffee or console table . Indian Wooden Tikka Box. A beautiful turned wooden box with lid from Northern India. These boxes often would have been used in an Indian Temple to store the powder for tilaka or ‘Bindi Paste’, this paste is used to bless and mark devotees on their forehead, face or body during ceremonies and celebrations. The colored powders used are made from sandalwood paste, ground turmeric powder or kumkum, ash or sindhoor.