The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art

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File:Tea-Plucking-by-Tamil-Cooly-Woman-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-Postcard-Front.jpg|"Tea Plucking by Tamil Cooly Woman, Ceylon", postcard front. "Cooly" is an unusual spelling of "coolie," an archaic word derived from the mid 17th century Hindi and Telugu word kuli, meaning "day laborer," and probably associated with the Urdu word ḳuli, meaning "slave." Ceylon is now Sri Lanka.
File:Tea-Plucking-by-Tamil-Cooly-Woman-Ceylon-Sri-Lanka-Postcard-Front.jpg|"Tea Plucking by Tamil Cooly Woman, Ceylon", postcard front. "Cooly" is an unusual spelling of "coolie," an archaic word derived from the mid 17th century Hindi and Telugu word kuli, meaning "day laborer," and probably associated with the Urdu word ḳuli, meaning "slave." Ceylon is now Sri Lanka.
File:Plucking-Salada-Tea-Postcard-Front.jpg|The Salada Tea Plucker, Ceylon, postcard front, 1930s.
File:Plucking-Salada-Tea-Postcard-Front.jpg|The Salada Tea Plucker, Ceylon, postcard front, 1930s.

Revision as of 23:58, 17 March 2021

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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