Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c38.8

c38.8

CRAFTSMEN AT WORK. [Figure: 1-4. Potters at work :
1. Making a muṭṭiya; eṭili and kaḷageḍi behind. Dumbara.
2. Completing the under side of a ṇembiliya; on the worker's right, a muṭṭiya with water : Balaṅgoḍa.
3. Painting red stripes on a kaḷageḍiya; stacks of muṭṭi behind. The workshop is the verandah of the potter's house : Mādampe.
4. Scoring furrows in ṇembili and koras; Balaṅgoḍa.]
5. Weaver of grass bags or baskets (bulat-mal); a low-country woman living at Haldummulla.
6. Brass founder using stock drill (gal-torapaṇaya) to bore holes in metal: a low-country man, at Mahavalaṭenna, near Balaṅgoḍa. See Fig. 91 and pp. 142, 194.
7. Brass founders' shop, at Mahavalaṭenna, Balaṅgoḍa; low-country men working at an up-country valavva. In the foreground are three furnaces, two containing crucibles.
8. Fair at annual perahera at Saman Dēvāle, Ratnapura; low-country metal-work sold inland.
9. Roḍiya maker of horn combs; Ella, Ūva. See p. 189.
10. Goviya dressed as mura-karaya (watchman), wearing diya kacciya and armed with sword and spear; Haldummulla.