Men standing by a tree in Ceylon, holding bows and arrows. Photograph, ca.1900, by A. Plate.

  • Plate, A. W. A.
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549141i
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Colombo : A.W.A. Plate & Co.

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1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

Wild people of Ceylon "Veddhas" Lettering pencilled on verso, photographer's details stamped on verso Bears number: 236

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This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 549141i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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