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Maker(s):Unknown
Title:Sacred Boo Tree. Anuaradapura, Ceylon.
Date Made:circa late 1890's
Type:Photograph
Materials:platinum print on paper
Place Made:Sri Lanka
Measurements:mount: 14 x 16 in.; 35.56 x 40.64 cm; image: 9 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.; 23.1775 x 28.575 cm
Narrative Inscription:  inscription on moutn on verso: Sacred Boo Tree. Anuaradapura, Ceylon, inscription on mount on verso in ink: Presented by Miss Ellen S. Bates
Accession Number:  SC 1982.38.87
Credit Line:Purchased with Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund, with funds given in memory of Nancy Newhall (Nancy Parker, class of 1930) and in honor of Beaumont Newhall, and with funds given in honor of Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Two monks stand inf ront of white structure surrounded by trees; shrine; religious building; Sri Lanka

Subjects:
Buildings; Trees

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