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Photo 430/5(3)
- Record Id:
- 041-003082629
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-003082626
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025862941.0x0005a8
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100135045012.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 430/5(3)
- Title:
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Talipot Palm, [Sri Lanka]. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
Subjects = Curzon Collection; talipot palms; trees & plants
Location = Ceylon; Sri Lanka
Photograph of a Talipot Palm, in seed, with rice paddies in the distance, taken by an unknown photographer in Sri Lanka in the 1880s. The Talipot Palm (Corypha Umbraculifera) grows in Southern India, Sri Lanka and the Far East, and blooms once only, after reaching maturity at thirty plus years, it then dies after producing seed. Its very large fan-shaped leaves were used in the production of the palm-leaf manuscript books of South Asia; when cut and prepared through smoothing, boiling and drying, the finished leaf formed a long, narrow rectangle with a smooth, flexible,pale brown surface. The text was either inscribed with a stylus or written with pen and ink and the leaves tied together in bundles to form the manuscripts.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003082259
040-003082626
041-003082629 - Is part of:
- Photo 430 : Curzon Collection
Photo 430/5 : Curzon Collection: 'Ceylon, India'. Photographer(s): Unknown
Photo 430/5(3) : Talipot Palm, [Sri Lanka]. Photographer: Unknown - Hierarchy:
- 032-003082259[0005]/040-003082626[0003]/041-003082629
- 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_100135045012.0x000001 (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