Cleveland Museum of Art
Sinhalese Man
Scowen & Co.
- Date
- c. 1880s
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The gentleman sports a Western jacket and shirt, but his distinctive hairstyle identifies him as Sinhalese, a people originally from northern India who now form the majority of the population of Sri Lanka. Formally posed in a studio in profile, rather like a specimen, the image is more likely an anthropological study than a commissioned portrait.
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