Saturday, July 11, 2009

Tropical Ceylon 1932

A tour of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1932 includes many topics around the sri lanka at that time. Such as Map of Indian Ocean, Tropical road with wagon, Coconut palm trees, Coconuts processing, Man sorting coconut shells, Houses made of coconut palms, Woman buying a broom, Woman holding child, Baby crying and crawling, Children boys playing wearing loin cloths, Man showing long hairdo, Water buffalo pulling cart, Washing water buffalo in river, Baby elephant rubbing tree, Boy riding baby elephant, Large elephant dragging tree and finally boats on canal.



This movie was taken from the youtube and it was posted by

1 comment:

Kumaripaba Athukorala said...

This is a really interesting video. But it depicts only the life style of people in coastal area. I bet the life and the characteristics of olden sri lankans vary from the geography.

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