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Perahera

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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 lines of men in traditional clothing or costume, a line of elephants, three across, wearing decorative covers over their heads called, seeri, and blankets over their backs. On the elephant in the middle is a howdah. Over the howdah is a canopy held up on six long, thin poles held by six men walking along either side of the elephant. Men ride on the backs of the two elephants on either side of the center elephant. Behind the row of elephants are men playing instruments and dancing. Along both sides of the road are crowds of people watching the parade. Printed on the bottom left of the photograph in white ink, "The Perahera - An Annual Buddhist Procession - ." Printed on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph in white ink, "Scowen & Co. Ceylon."
Date Published
1894 to 1900
Publisher
Charles T. Scowen and Company (Ceylon)
Subjects
Esala Perahera
Sri Lankans
Elephants
Processions, Religious
Crowds
Notes
No date; likely late 1890s
caption: "The Perahera - an annual Buddhist procession."
Digitizing agency: University of Missouri—Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.
Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 28 cm
Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_loose_photo-042.tif
Genres
Albumen prints
Black & white photographs
Group portraits
Cityscape photographs
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
Copyright Undetermined
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections at specialcollections@umkc.edu for more information.
Rights
Copyright Undetermined
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections at specialcollections@umkc.edu for more information.

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