Householders constructing a timber footbridge across the Mimure oya
- Title:
- Householders constructing a timber footbridge across the Mimure oya
- Alternate Title:
- Hydrology
- 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_0362
- File Name:
- MCD2_0362.jpg
- Culture:
- Sinhala
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Subject:
- Mimure
waterways
Meemure (Sri Lanka)
Sri Lanka--Social life and customs
Pedestrian bridges
Bridge construction
Streams - Image View Description:
- Image of three Sri Lankan men from the village of Meemure constructing a timber footbridge across Mimure (Meemure) oya. One man is standing near a wooden plank, ready to receive a rock from the other two men. The Mimure oya (stream) flows east/northeast into the Heen Ganga, a major tributary of the Mahaweli.
- Description:
- Photo of three householders constructing a timber footbridge across the Mimure oya (brook).
- 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).