id: 313233 accession number: 2018.222 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.222 updated: 2022-03-03 10:00:44.596000 Veddahs of Ceylon, c. 1880s. Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876-1895), or Skeen & Co. (British, active 1860-1920). Albumen print; image: 21.3 x 28.1 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.); paper: 21.3 x 28.1 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2018.222 title: Veddahs of Ceylon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1880s creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1889 current location: creditline: Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust copyright: --- culture: India, 19th century technique: albumen print department: Photography collection: PH - British 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Scowen & Co. (British, active Ceylon, 1876-1895) - artist * Skeen & Co. (British, active 1860-1920) - artist Commercial photographer active in Ceylon (1860-1903). --- measurements: Image: 21.3 x 28.1 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.); Paper: 21.3 x 28.1 cm (8 3/8 x 11 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “Veddahs” translation: remark: inscription: Unidentified watermark on the upper edge of the photograph translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Bruno Tartarin, Photovintagefrance, Lorraine, France date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: September 4, 2018 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The Veddahs were originally animists who believed that plants and inanimate objects had souls. digital description: 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.222/2018.222_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.222/2018.222_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.222/2018.222_full.tif