Outrigger canoe, Kallady, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
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The brass utensils used in households in Sri-Lanka before the 1950s were heavy and needed constant polishing to keep them free of the green verdigris. If holed they could be easily repaired by the travelling tinker who visited the villages each year. These items were never thrown away. I saw these being sold as antiques at the entrance to the Lankathilaka Vihara.
It has been claimed that wood-working and wooden furniture was introduced into Sri Lanka by the Portuguese only in the 16th Century of the Present Era. Almost all the old buildings have roof supports of pillar-shaped granite. The doorways and windows had frames from granite.