Veddahs of Ceylon
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 21.3 × 28.1 cm · paper: 21.3 × 28.1 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
Accession Number
2018.222
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.