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Outrigger canoe, Kallady, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. Almost all of the photographs were taken by the owner of this blog and are his property.Click on each picture below to see an enlarged view.

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The centuries do not forget...

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While serving as Surgeon GH Ratnapura in 1982, a well dressed gentleman, came to see me with a long standing ulcer on one of his legs. It...

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Capture of Kandy, Sri Lanka.

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While serving in the Health Department in Kandy, I collected a few legends about Kandy. The Portuguese, the Dutch and the British suffered...

Monday, December 18, 2017

The capture of King Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe of Kandy

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The King Queen Rangammal The golden armor of the King - Looted by the British and sold by auction in 1820 in Britain ...

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

The 'Robinson Casket', Ivory 15th Century AD, Sri Lanka.

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The 'Robinson Casket' is one of a group of at least nine solid ivory caskets made in Kotte, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and sent b...

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Ivory combs, Sri Lanka, 15th Century AD.

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Combs, made of wood,coconut shell, metal, tortoise shell and ivory were in standard use long before the advent of plastics. Ivory com...

Monday, December 4, 2017

Child's walking trainer, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

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"Nadai vandil' - 'Child's walking trainer' - a wooden toy popular in the 1940s in Jaffna. This was given to ...

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Haputhale road, Sri Lanka.

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Old Haputhale road and present highway. Listen to the old song a carter is singing to his bullocks, dragging his loaded ...

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