Black-and-white negative

Museum number:
15-30270
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
CE-55 (previous number (collector's original number)) and TEMP 2017.168 (temporary number)
Accession number:
Acc.4054
Description:
Black and white image of a Sinhalese beggar. Hoefler's original description: "Island of Ceylon. A Sinhalese beggar. This ragged man with a troubled look, came stalking along near the Temple of the Tooth, with his umbrella under one arm and a cooking pot in one hand. In a sack slung from his shoulder he carried the rest of his worldly possessions. Begging in this country is an honorable profession, and not an uncomfortable state of existence, for there is no intense cold to be discomforting and ample food can be plucked along the wayside, the few annas contributed by soft-hearted people providing luxuries.
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Verbatim coll. place:
Island of Ceylon, near Temple of the Tooth
Culture or time period:
Sinhalese
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1931-1932
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Place depicted:
Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Function:
7.0 Use not specified (Communication, Records, Currency, and Measures)
Production date:
1931-1932
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Registration
Dimensions:
whole— length 5 inches and whole— height 4 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-30270, described as Black and white image of a Sinhalese beggar. Hoefler's original description: "Island of Ceylon. A Sinhalese beggar. This ragged man with a troubled look, came stalking along near the Temple of the Tooth, with his umbrella under one arm and a cooking pot in one hand. In a sack slung from his shoulder he carried the rest of his worldly possessions. Begging in this country is an honorable profession, and not an uncomfortable state of existence, for there is no intense cold to be discomforting and ample food can be plucked along the wayside, the few annas contributed by soft-hearted people providing luxuries.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Black-and-white negative, accession number 15-30270, described as Black and white image of a Sinhalese beggar. Hoefler's original description: "Island of Ceylon. A Sinhalese beggar. This ragged man with a troubled look, came stalking along near the Temple of the Tooth, with his umbrella under one arm and a cooking pot in one hand. In a sack slung from his shoulder he carried the rest of his worldly possessions. Begging in this country is an honorable profession, and not an uncomfortable state of existence, for there is no intense cold to be discomforting and ample food can be plucked along the wayside, the few annas contributed by soft-hearted people providing luxuries.

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