Two Sri Lankan women sat on low wooden beds

A black and white landscape photograph of two Sri Lankan women sat on low, wooden beds (possibly charpoys). Both are wearing blouses, long skirts and bangles. The woman on the right is looking towards the camera and the woman on the left has her eyes closed. The end and bottom two legs of each bed is visible; one has a drawer and the other has a rectangular whole hole in the same place. The seats and front legs of two chairs are visible to the left of the image. The beds are stood in or just in front of a doorway or opening into another room through which two partially-obscured figures can be seen. Behind these figures is a window through which banisters or failings can be seen.

This photograph appears on a page of four photographs joinlty captioned 'COLOMBO' but has no individual caption so the place this photograph was taken, and what exactly it shows, remains unclear.

Object Details

ID: ALB0846.16
Type: Photographic print
Display location: Not on display
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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