Veddahs of Ceylon
Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
or Skeen & Co. (British, active 1860–1920)
c. 1880s
- Medium
- albumen print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.3 x 28.1 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.); Paper: 21.3 x 28.1 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The Veddahs or Veddas are an indigenous minority in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) that may have been the island’s earliest inhabitants. These men are dressed in typical scant Vedda male garb for the 19th century—loincloths tied with a rope at the waist.
