Cleveland Museum of Art
Veddahs of Ceylon
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- Date
- c. 1880s
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 313233
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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- Credit line
- Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
- Provenance
- Bruno Tartarin, Photovintagefrance, Lorraine, France | September 4, 2018: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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