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Playing the Rabana drum - Sinhalese - Colombo, Sri Lanka
Playing the Rabana drum - Sinhalese people - Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Maha (big) Rabana or Banku (bench) Rabana, played by two or more people at a time is used at wedding festivals and Sinhala New Year Celebrations in Sri Lanka. It also symbolizes the spring festivals of the country. Generally women are the best players of the Banku Rabana and a special system of Raban Pada is in practice among them. One reads out the beat loudly and plays it in collaboration with others. Some of the onlookers would enjoy the music with dance in order to tune it for better sounds. The Rabana (as can be seen on this card) is kept on three wooden trunks about 18 inches high and the leader kindles fire under the instrument so that it can be tuned for finer sounds. Date: circa 1910s
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Food being unloaded in the Channel Islands; Second World War
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The Evacuation of Greeks from Gallipoli, Turkey - November 18, 1922. Date: 1922
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Papua New Guinea - Elevara Mission and L.M.S Mission
Papua New Guinea - Elevara Village and the L.M.S. Mission. The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and Nonconformists, largely Congregationalist in outlook, with missions in the islands of the South Pacific and Africa. Date: circa 1920s
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Sart People - Tajikistan - Affluent Family - Studio Portrait
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A large crowd gathering - north of England (possibly Leeds or Sheffield?). Date: 1908
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The blockade of London Bridge, 1859. The congested and overcrowded state of the streets
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WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A thing of duty - no joy whatever
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WW2 - The population of Paris invade the Boulevards in frenzy of joyous excitement
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Papua New Guinea - Elema people - Eharo Masks
Elema people (of the Papuan Gulf in southeast New Guinea) practicing an elaborate cycle of masked rituals. These monumental Eharo masks were created primarily for amusement. To the Elema, eharo were "maea morava eharu" ("things of gladness"), and were danced as a prelude to more sacred rituals. Eharo represented supernatural beings (as well as comedic figures), such as lecherous old men and were made and worn by young men from neighbouring villages (at the request of the village hosting the ceremony). As they entered the village, they were pelted with shredded coconut by the women to neutralize their seductive powers! Now rendered harmless, the eharo danced surrounded by large groups of women to the amusement of the assembled crowd. Date: circa 1920s
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection