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  • A tropical plant (Brownea grandiceps) with large flower. Photograph.
  • Two Sri Lankan tree climbers in the canopy.
  • An account of the interior of Ceylon, and of its inhabitants. With travels in that island / By John Davy.
  • Agriculture: a coconut tree plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with workers in the foreground and an overseer (?) off to the left. Wood engraving.
  • Sita in captivity in Lanka being tempted by Ravana. Chromolithograph.
  • A figure with the head of an elephant and the legs and feet of a goat dances on a table and is worshipped by Singhalese people around him. Etching and engraving.
  • Two Sri Lankan tree climbers in the canopy.
  • Ceylon: Tamil devil dancer. Photograph, ca. 1906.
  • 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 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.
  • A durian (Durio zibethinus): an entire and sectioned fruit. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Three seated pearl divers in Ceylon, wearing nose clips. Halftone.
  • Elephants drinking in a river in Sri Lanka, with men in turbans seated upon their backs. Watercolour by A. Nicholl, 18--.
  • The blossom and fruit of a coffee tree (Coffea arabica) Photograph.
  • A fruiting cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) Photograph.
  • The talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera) growing by a lakeside in Ceylon. Coloured etching after W. Daniell, c.1827.
  • Two children making a sandcastle by the sea out of which looms a sinister looking man with a camera around his neck, a yellow hat who brandishes green dollar notes; a yellow-eyed hairy beast lurks behind him; with Sinhalese lettering; a warning about child sex tourism and AIDS prevention issued by Peace (Protecting Environment and children Everywhere). Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A mangosteen plant (Garcinia mangostana): fruiting branch and halved fruit. Photograph.