# Vanishing Veddahs

Records the customs and ceremonies of a near-prehistoric tribe in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) that faced extinction when the film was made in 1957. Shows wedding with 12-year-old bride, poisoning fish by adding fruit extract to water, and making fire by wood-screw. The filmmaking Batholomeusz family descends from an old Dutch burger settler family in Ceylon

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1957
- Runtime: 23 min
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/afvanishing-veddahs)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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