Lungi Collection

Pina - drummer boy in a Buddhist temple, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Pina - drummer boy in a Buddhist temple, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Portrait of a child with a set of double drums secured round his waist. Pina, Trommeljunge in Buddha-Tempel

Studies of people, Colombo, Ceylon, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Studies of people, Colombo, Ceylon, 1898. Roman Catholic Tamil man, Sinhalese man, Muslim man. Tscheddy Mam (Tamile) (Romische Katholik), Singhalese, Mohamedaner

Group of men, Colombo, Ceylon, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Group of men, Colombo, Ceylon, 1898. Men chatting - one carrying a large basket on his head - in what is now Sri Lanka. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth]

Temple musicians, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Temple musicians, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Men playing pipe and drums. Tempelmusiker. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

Menika - drummer at the Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Man with drums tied round his waist. Menika, Trommler im Buddha Tempel Dalada Maligawa

Ukku Banda, young man at a temple, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Ukku Banda, young man at a temple, Kandy, Ceylon, 1898. Ukku Banda - Tempeljunge im Kandy. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

Buddhist, Ceylon, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Buddhist, Ceylon, 1898. Buddhist man holding a boat-shaped object. Buddha Pilester [?]. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

Sesame mill painted in honour of a Hindu goddess, India, 1936. Artist: Ewing Galloway
Sesame mill painted in honour of a Hindu goddess, India, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Cremation in India, c1890. Artist: Gillot
Cremation in India, c1890. Illustration from Iles Andaman et Ceylan, Moeurs et Coutumes, (a work on the customs and costume of the Andaman Islands and Ceylon), by L Boulanger, (Paris, c1890)

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