# Veddahs of Ceylon

- By: Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876–1895)
- By: Skeen & Co. (British, active 1860–1920)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.222)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.222/2018.222_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.