Gypsies of Sri Lanka

The wandering tribe of people called 'Ahikuntikayo' in Sinhalese or 'Kuravar' in Tamil is the only Gypsy tribe in present Sri Lanka. Each wandering group sets up camp almost overnight bordering a village. In the old days they used donkeys as a means of transport. After setting camp they wander in the nearby villages exhibiting, monkeys, Cobras and selling 'snake-stones' peddled as poison extractors after a snake bite.Their females read palms and do fortune telling. On a bright sunny day the man in the photo came to our house exhibiting a monkey and a cobra. The children in our house had a wonderful time, seeing the monkey's antics.Please click on the web-link below :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Gypsy_people