95 x 139 mm. Three quarter length studio portrait of a Mudaliyar in full costume. ‘The highest rank among them is the Mudaliyar. It is either borne ex-officio or is conferred by the Governor as an honourary distinction. On state occasions the Mudaliyars attend Government House in full costume, when they wear handsomely ornamented dirks, suspended from the shoulder by richly worked gold belts’, Arnold Wright, ‘Twentieth century impressions of Ceylon’ (London, 1907), p. 335. Photograph by Scowen & Co.