Cleveland Museum of Art
Veddahs of Ceylon
Scowen & Co.
- Date
- c. 1880s
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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. The Veddahs were originally animists who believed that plants and inanimate objects had souls.
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