New folklife mural, Hunnasgirya/Kandy-Mahiyangana Road
- Title:
- New folklife mural, Hunnasgirya/Kandy-Mahiyangana Road
- Collection:
- Depicting the Sri Lankan Vernacular
- Set:
- Hunnasgirya
- Photographer:
- MacDougall, Bonnie G. (Bonnie Graham), 1941-2017
- Date:
- 2012
- Location:
- Hunnasgirya, Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Country:
- Sri Lanka
- ID Number:
- MCD2_0258
- File Name:
- MCD2_0258.jpg
- Culture:
- Sinhala
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Subject:
- traditional life
- Description:
- "Mural of the rural" made by students from the Kolangoda school in celebration of the completion of the new Kandy-Mahiyangana road near Hunnasgiriya in 2012. The mural incorporates images of a thatched roofed dwelling and courtyard with domestic animals, a water source, in this case, a village reservoir or "tank", adjacent paddy lands, forests and in this distance, a Buddhist chaitya.
- Repository:
- Bonnie G. MacDougall (original photographs)
- 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.