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Veddahs of Ceylon
Veddahs of Ceylon
c. 1880s
Albumen print
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.)
Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2018.222
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The Veddahs were originally animists who believed that plants and inanimate objects had souls.
Description
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.
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