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Photo 430/5(1)
- Record Id:
- 041-003082627
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003082626
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025862941.0x0005a6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100135044995.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 430/5(1)
- Title:
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Singhalese Boatmen and Catamarans on the coast of Ceylon. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Historical Events
Subjects = catamarans; Curzon Collection; transport; water transport
Location = Ceylon; Sri Lanka
Photograph of Sinhalese boatmen and catamarans on the coast of Sri Lanka taken in the 1880s by an unknown photographer. Out-rigger canoes or catamarans were originally rafts of three or four logs lashed together and their name comes from the Tamil 'Kattu' (binding) and 'Maram' (wood). T.H.Holdich wrote in the Imperial Gazeteer of India, 'The coast-line of Ceylon is singularly beautiful. Fringed with palm-trees down to the very water's edge, the long line of yellow foreshore is broken at broken at frequent intervals by the picturesque villages of a fishing population, which seems to swarm in every sheltered bay and backwater. On the east and south the coast is low, and the surf beats with long monotonous cadence on the sands...the harbour of Trincomalee...is celebrated as one of the most beautiful in the world ranking with Sydney or Rio de Janeiro.'
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003082259
040-003082626
041-003082627 - Is part of:
- Photo 430 : Curzon Collection
Photo 430/5 : Curzon Collection: 'Ceylon, India'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Photo 430/5(1) : Singhalese Boatmen and Catamarans on the coast of Ceylon. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003082259[0005]/040-003082626[0001]/041-003082627
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 430
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100135044995.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1880
- End Date:
- 1889
- Date Range:
- 1880s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known