Unidentified men and boys, barefoot and in traditional clothing, look at the camera as they stand on a sidewalk in front of an open-air market with Sinhala ulu roof, and a bullock cart in the street...
A Kandian chief and family are wearing traditional clothing and jewelry as they sit or stand in a room in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. He is the only male in the family. They all look somberly at...
Kandyan chiefs stand outdoors in two rows in tradition clothing and daggers for chiefs at that time, with the British Governor of Ceylon, Henry Arthur Blake, in the center of the front row in 1905 in...
Four dancers in costume pose in the street with a wall behind them in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A drummer sits on the path in profile on the right side of the photograph, with a gata bera drum lying...
Buddhists monks gather around a low, small table with a tablecloth, on which religious objects are displayed for the exposition of the Buddha's tooth in the Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa) in...
The Grand Oriental Hotel and street intersection in Colombo, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. People stand in the road by the side of the hotel on the left side of the photograph. A man pulling a rickshaw, a...
A street scene in Maradana, a suburb of Colombo, in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. People in traditional clothing walk up and down a dirt lane between two rows of one-story buildings. Two people walking...
A street in Sri Lanka is very crowded as the Perahera, an annual Buddhist procession during the Festival of the Tooth in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], moves down the street. The parade down the center has...
Pilgrimage group at an unidentified location in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. Part of the group sit on the ground, and benches, or stand in rows outside a building. Others look at the camera from the open...
Many people stand along the street in front of a wall for the Queen's Hotel in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. On the extreme left of the photograph, a man stands in the street, stops and turns to...
A Sri Lankan man stands by the mast of the sail on the framework where the outrigger is attached to the boat in a Sinhalese fishing boat called a Bala Oruwa that sits on the beach in Sri Lanka [then...
Unidentified group standing in front of inner Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa) in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. Six men stand in front of a porch above and behind them that completely surrounds...
Three unidentified, barefoot street performers pose on a path in front of a cliff in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. Two dancers in costume gesture with their hands and arms toward the man in the center, as...
A street scene in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon] of crowded roads of people walking, some carrying baskets on their heads, some carrying umbrellas, and bullock carts waiting, rickshaws being pulled, and many...
Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa) in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], is surrounded by a moat that has a parapet between the moat and the lane and then between the most and the temple on the left...
Two unidentified men in traditional clothing stand along the walkway with the wall, Walakulu Bamma, between them and Kandy Lake in Sri Lanka {then Ceylon]. A row of trees separates the walkway from...
An unidentified woman holding a toddler, stands between two children. The one on the left is possibly a teenager and the other a young child in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. They stand in the water in...
