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Description: | Photograph of a view along a palm-fringed beach, probably at Mount Lavinia in Sri Lanka, taken by A.W.A.Plate & Co c.1900. Mount Lavinia, situated south of Colombo the island's capital, was originally the residence of the former British Governor and is now a hotel. The fishing boats drawn up on the sand in the foreground are out-rigger canoes or catamarans which were originally a raft of three or four logs lashed together and whose name comes from the Tamil 'Kattu' (binding)and 'Maram' (wood). The photo studio of A.W.A Plté & Co, set up in Colombo, was the most successful in the island after Skeen & Co, and continues to the present day. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Pl��t�� Ltd, A.W.A. | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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