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VEDDAHS, or WEDDAHS (from Sanskrit veddha, " hunter ") , a primitive people of Ceylon, probably representing the Yakkos or " demons " of Sanskrit writers, the true aborigines of the island. During the Dutch occupation (1644-1796) they were found as far north as Jaffna, but are now confined to the south-eastern district
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The true jungle veddahs are almost a dwarfish race. They are dark-skinned and flat-nosed, slight of frame
hair is shaggy rather than lank. They are a shy, harmless, simple folk, living chiefly by hunting; they lime birds, catch fish by poisoning the water, and are skilled in getting wild honey; they have bows with iron-pointed arrows and breed hunting dogs. They dwell in caves or bark huts, and their word for house
drill
worship , consisting of rude dances and shouts raised to scare away the evil spirits, whom they confound with their ancestors.The Veddahs are not to be confounded with the Rodiyas of the western uplands, who are a much finer race, tall, wellporportioned, with regular features, and speak a language said to be radically distinct from all the Aryan and Dravidian dialects current in Ceylon. There is, however, in Travancore, on the mainland, a low-caste " Veda " tribe, nearly black, with wavy or frizzly hair , and now speaking a Malayalim (Dravidian) dialect (Jagor), who probably approach nearer than the insular Veddahs to the aboriginal pre-Dravidian " negrito " element
See Percival, Description of Island of Ceylon (1805); Cordiner, Description of Ceylon (1807); John Davy, Ceylon and its Inhabitants (1821); Stirr, Ceylon and the Singhalese (185o), Sir Emerson Tennent, Ceylon (1859); J. Baily, Trans. of Ethnol. Soc., New Series , vol. ii. (1863); Rolleston, Trans. of Brit. Ass. (1872); B. F. Hartshorne, Fortnightly Review, New Series , vol. xix. p. 406. The most elaborate monograph is that of Professor Virchow, Ober die Weddds von Ceylon and ihre Beziehungen zu den Nachbarstammen (Berlin, 1882). See also E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture; A. Thomson, " Osteology of Veddahs," in Journ. Anthrop. Institute (1889), vol. xix. p. 125; L. de Zoysa, " Origin of Veddahs," in Journal, Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, vol. vii.End of Article: VEDDAHS, or WEDDAHS (from Sanskrit veddha, " hunter ") If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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