Sinhalese Collection

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

Sri Lanka - Hindu Ascetic - Incredibly long hair
Sri Lanka - Hindu Ascetic Sadhu with incredibly long hair, worn in thick dreadlocks called jata. Date: circa 1910s

Wat Chana Songkhram, Old Sukhothai, Thailand
The Wat Chana Songkhram Buddhist temple in Old Sukhothai, Thailand. The bell-shaped chedi (tomb) is in Singhalese style. Viewed across a lily pond with bright pink flowers in bloom. Date: 2005

Sinhalese Devil Dancers - Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese (Sinhala, Sinhala Jathiya, Hela or Sinhale) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. Date: 1909

Sri Lanka - Sinhalese Government Peon. A peon in this region was mainly an attendant, orderly, office boy or person kept around for odd jobs. Date: circa 1910s

Sinhalese Buddhist Priests, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Sinhalese boy golf caddy, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1910

Sinhalese man, and indigenous Vedda man from Sri Lanka.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Sinhalese man, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Sri Lanka - Sinhalese Girl carrying a Water Jar (Chatty). The Sinhalese are the main ethnic group of Sri Lanka. Date: circa 1910s

Sinhalese Lace Maker - Sri Lanka
A very attractive hand-coloured postcard showing a Sinhalese Lace Maker. The Sinhalese (Sinhala, Sinhala Jathiya, Hela or Sinhale) are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka

Maidens Among the Clouds
The Cloud Damsels. Detail from the ancient frescoes at Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, showing two women carrying food and flowers, possibly as an offering

Low Country Sinhalese Woman - Sri Lanka. She appears to have a pile of interestingly-shaped fruit or veg in her lap, which defies identification.... Date: circa 1908

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