Two cinnamon peelers at work, Esaias Boursse, 1662 Outside, two men are squatting on an uneven and sloping soil. The men belong to the Singalese profession of cinnamon peelers of the caste of the chalias or salagama. The man on the left is wearing a hip rug (veshti, lungi), partly pulled over his left knee. In his left hand he holds a cut a branch of the cinnamon tree. With the peeling knife in his right hand, he cuts the red -brown -colored inner barked loose. The man on the right is signed right from the front. He is dressed in a hip rug (Veshti, Lungi) in a Singalese way wrapped. With his
Two cinnamon peelers at work, Esaias Boursse, 1662 Outside, two men are squatting on an uneven and sloping soil. The men belong to the Singalese profession of cinnamon peelers of the caste of the chalias or salagama. The man on the left is wearing a hip rug (veshti, lungi), partly pulled over his left knee. In his left hand he holds a cut a branch of the cinnamon tree. With the peeling knife in his right hand, he cuts the red -brown -colored inner barked loose. The man on the right is signed right from the front. He is dressed in a hip rug (Veshti, Lungi) in a Singalese way wrapped. With his right hand, he brings a peeler along a branch of the cinnamon tree, perhaps he is busy removing the outer bark. Leaf 100 from a sketchbook with 117 sheets. Sri Lanka paper. ink brush Asiatic races and peoples (with NAME). (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: cinnamon. carrying something with carrying-pole Sri Lanka. Colombo
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