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  • Polychrome devil mask from Kolam performance, Sri Lanka.
  • Sri Lanka: traditional 'devil dancers' in costume. Photograph, ca. 1860.
  • Slaves harvesting cinnamon near Colombo, Sri Lanka. Line engraving by Mutlow.
  • Sri Lanka: Kandy, the fifteen different kinds of hell at maligawa's wall. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • Possibly the temple at Nu Tooth, Sri Lanka. Watercolour drawing by C.H.S.B.
  • Galle, Sri Lanka: jewellers in traditional dress displaying their jewellery on a table. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Sebald de Weert is killed in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, by officers of the King of Kandy, 1603. Engraving.
  • Hanuman defeating demons in Sri Lanka while Sita sits under a tree; Bhima killing Jarasamdha watched by Krishna. Transfer lithograph.
  • Elephants drinking in a river in Sri Lanka, with men in turbans seated upon their backs. Watercolour by A. Nicholl, 18--.
  • A happy Sri Lankan family with a warning about the importance of limiting sexual partners to prevent the spread of AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Health Education Bureau of Sri Lanka. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Agriculture: a coconut tree plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with workers in the foreground and an overseer (?) off to the left. Wood engraving.
  • Kandy, Sri Lanka: the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall at the shrine of the tooth of the Buddha. Gouache by H. M. Paget, 1901, after S.P. Hall.
  • Sri Lanka: a local cook and another man are straining soup through a pair of breeches into a tureen; their British employers are shocked and the woman faints. Ink drawing, 1859.
  • A personified blood splatter (?) against a grey background looking in alarm at the word 'AIDS/HIV' (?) in yellow Sinhalese lettering; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Health Education Bureau of Sri Lanka. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man and woman holding each other within a heart edged with barbed wire representing a warning about the importance of monogamy to help prevent the spread of AIDS; an advertisement by the Health Education Bureau of Sri Lanka. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Thunbergia alata Sims Acanthaceae. Black-eyed Susan. Tender, perennial herbaceous climbing plant. Distribution: East Africa. Named for Carl Peter (Pehr or Per) Thunberg (1743-1828), doctor, botanist, student of Linnaeus who collected plants in Japan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. He published Flora Japonica (1784)
  • Manuscript map of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) drawn using black, blue and red ink, contained in a journal by Barton mainly written while a medical officer in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Journal record the completion of the expedition to China, return to Shanhai and subsequent embarkation on the P and O steamer Aden (3 August) for Ceylon, via Singapore, with later entries on hunting expeditions in Ceylon.
  • A Sinhalese black devil called Ayimane holding a cockerel in one hand and resting a leg on a giant blue cat. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A Sinhalese great black devil sitting on a black cow or ox, eating an elephant's head. Gouache painting by an Sri Lankan artist.
  • A three headed Sinhalese devil called Sanni standing before a leopard (?) and holding a trident. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A Sinhalese devil wearing a lungi with a scarf draped around his head, stands under a doorway entwined with snakes. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A Sinhalese four armed devil called Calloo Coomare, wearing a headdress of snakes and holding a cockeral, twig with leaves, sword and a small club in his hands. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A Sinhalese devil standing before a red horse with numerous snakes wrapped around his body and head. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A Sinhalese devil called Dewel, wearing a headdress and carrying a stick (?)in each hand. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A Sinhalese demon, Coomar, with one leg wrapped around a man, clutching an earring (?) with one hand and holding a twig and a cockerel with his other. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A goddess standing in front of a bird, holding a flower . Gouache painting by an Indic artist.
  • A Sinhalese four armed devil standing on top of a dead body sucking the blood through two long sticks with a peacock (?) perched on each shoulder. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • A demon holding a snake in his right hand. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.
  • Buddha, resisting the demons of Mara, who are attempting to prevent him from attaining enlightenment, as angels watch from above. Lithograph.
  • A Sinhalese devil called Garrah holding two flaming torches in each hand. Gouache painting by a Sri Lankan artist.