M0005322: Vedda Divination, Sri Lanka

Date:
November 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/43/53
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M0005322: Vedda Divination, Sri Lanka. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Vedda Divination, the shaman holds a bow

Description

Reproduction of a photograph showing divination among the Veddas of Sri Lanka. A man is sitting in a crouched position, holding a bow balanced by a string to determine which of the Vaku is responsible. The Veddas ascribed responsibility for illness to the Vaku or spirits of the dead. The reproduction is from The Veddas of Ceylon, by C. Seligmann. 1911. Cambridge Archaelogical & Ethnographic Series. Wellcome Collection hold a process print of the image (reference 581395i)

Publication/Creation

November 1937

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative along with a process print of the image: 581395i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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