Procession of Buddha's Tooth in Ceylon 1908
Annual festival lasting for ten days and nights. Believed to be the sacred tooth relic of Buddha, being carried by a decorative elephant and accompanying by the procession of another forty in all, through the streets. Photograph showing the procession approarching the end, near the great temple at Kandy in Ceylon, know as Dalada Mailgawa or the Palace of the Tooth
Picture No
14170305
Media ID
48990340
Size
4155px x 5479px
(31.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Graphic', 16 September 1908, page 369
Date
August 1908
