Householder holding purple faced langur skins
- Title:
- Householder holding purple faced langur skins
- Collection:
- Depicting the Sri Lankan Vernacular
- Set:
- Dwelling #39
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_0048
- File Name:
- MCD2_0048.jpg
- Culture:
- Sinhala
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Subject:
- forest life
purple-faced langur
Trachypithecus vetulus
endangered species - Description:
- Householder of Dwelling #39 holding skins of Sri Lanka purple faced langur (Trahypithecus vetulus), an endemic Old World monkey. The habitat of the langur has been sharply reduced in Sri Lanka by deforestation. Householders regarded them as pests in highland cultivation areas and killed them.
- Notes:
- *Rangama is a fictitious name.
- Rights:
- The images in the Sri Lankan Vernacular are protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is the Estate of their creator/photographer, Bonnie MacDougall. 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 the photographer. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and 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.