The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art

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File:Seventeen-Women-Plucking-Tea-with-a-Male-Overseer-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-postcard-front.jpg|Tea Pluckers at Work; seventeen women plucking tea-with-a-male-overseer in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), circa 1910. postcard front.
File:Seventeen-Women-Plucking-Tea-with-a-Male-Overseer-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-postcard-front.jpg|Tea Pluckers at Work; seventeen women plucking tea-with-a-male-overseer in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), circa 1910. postcard front.
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File:Multiple-Women-Plucking-Tea-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-c1930s.jpg|Plucking Tea Upc Country Estate Ceylon: Multiple women plucking tea in Ceylon (Sri-Lanka} with  male overseers, circa 1930s, postcard front
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Revision as of 01:13, 7 November 2020

On this page i am developing a gallery of images that feature a woman in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) plucking tea on vintage postcards and advertising. Stay tuned for more art, photos, postcards, advertisements, and socio-political theorizing about this trope in commercial tea leaf art.

catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room

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