A profile view of the head and chest of an unidentified boy in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. His hair is pulled back in a low bun just above his neck. Printed in white ink on the bottom right-hand corner,...
Two unidentified boys are one holding a pineapple in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. One boy sits on a table in the center of the photograph and another boy stands beside him to the left. Plants and...
An unidentified Brahmin woman in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], stands in front of banana leaves with her hands crossed on her lap as she looks off to the right. She wears ornate jewelry from her nose, ears...
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...
In a profile photograph, an unidentified man sits on the neck of an elephant and rides as another unidentified man, called a mahout (trainer, keeper), stands under the elephants head holding a goad...
Ella Loose stands at the road at the beginning of a path into the Royal Botanical Garden of Peradeniya with an unidentified Sri Lanken boy [then Ceylon]. She holds a closed umbrella, tip to ground, in...
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...
An unidentified Sri Lankan man stands with his hand resting on his hip along a lane that passes under the split roots and trunk of a banyan tree. Each side of the lane is covered by a Banyan tree...
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...
Kandy Lake with the royal palace complex, containing Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa), in the background on the other side of the lake in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A Sri Lankan man on the...
A hill filled with stumps of Manihot Glaziovii, a tree that produces Ceara India-Rubber that have been clear cut in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A Sri Lanken man stands in the foreground with his hand on...
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...
A barefoot Sri Lankan man in traditional clothing, who is a snake charmer, crouches on the ground and closes his eyes as he plays a pungi in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A cobra snake is on the ground in...
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 Sri Lankan men are in front of a roof supported by poles with two large statues of iconography (Hindu God Murugan and peacock) that each stand on its own pallet in Sri Lanka [then...
