Bullock cart and Sri Lanken men and boys in front of a market
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...
Chief of Kandy and his family in Sri Lanka
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...
Chiefs of Kandy, Sri Lanka, with British Governor of Ceylon, Blake
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...
Devil dancers and drummer in Sri Lanka
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...
elephant with two men
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...
Exposition to exhibit the Buddha's tooth
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...
Man stands on lane that runs under a Banyan tree
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...
Royal palace complex
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...
Rubber tree clearing
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...
Singhalese fishing boat
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...
Six men stand in the inner Temple of the Tooth
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...
Sri Lanka man plays a pungi for a cobra snake to move to
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...
Street performers in Sri Lanka
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...
Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka
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 men pose with statues of God Murugan and his peacock
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...