Devale interior
- Title:
- Devale interior
- Collection:
- Depicting the Sri Lankan Vernacular
- Set:
- Mimure
- Photographer:
- MacDougall, Robert D. (Robert Duncan), 1940-1987
- Date:
- 1965
- Location:
- Mimure, Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Country:
- Sri Lanka
- ID Number:
- MCD2_0303
- File Name:
- MCD2_0303.jpg
- Culture:
- Sinhala
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Subject:
- Mimure
interior views
sacred regalia
ancillary structures
Meemure (Sri Lanka)
Buddhist shrines
Buddhism--Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka--Social life and customs
Buddhism--Liturgical objects - Image View Description:
- Image of the interior of the Devale (shrine) in Meemure. The interior is draped with colorful pieces of cloth with metal religious emblems displayed.
- Description:
- The photograph shows the interior of the Mimure devale in which the metal emblems/badges of office of the deities whose blessings are ritually entreated are displayed. It also shows the cloths which are the material substance of offerings made to those deities at the annual first fruits ceremony.
- Cite As:
- Bonnie and Robert MacDougall papers, #15-2-4397. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This image is protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is Cornell University. It is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Images in the Sri Lankan Vernacular collection were created between roughly 1960-2012, and were digitized by Cornell University Library from a variety of negatives, positives, and slides retained by the Estate of Bonnie MacDougall. Permission is required for any use that extends beyond what is authorized by the license, fair use, and/or other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell welcomes additional information about the items in this collection, including any additional information regarding rights holders. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu with any such information or to request permission to use any images from this collection. For additional information about how you may use materials from Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, review our Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright).