Details
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 across his lap which he holds between his hands. Printed in white ink in the bottom left-hand corner, "Scowen & Co. Ceylon." Printed in white ink in the bottom left-hand quadrant, "Sinhalese Devil Dancers."
Date Published
1894 to 1900
Publisher
Charles T. Scowen and Company (Ceylon)
Subjects
Notes
No date; likely late 1890s
caption: "Sinhalese devil dancers."
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 27 cm
Member of
Source File
umkc_lsc_loose_photo-059.tif
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
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