A green and white Tamil alphabet chart from an old primer, with 'ka, na, sa' penciled in and shaded out in the left margin.
A green and white Tamil letter chart.
A pitted and grooved aluminum appachatti with two jutting handles and a lid with a ring handle in its center sits on a cherry veneer table.
An aluminum appachatti.
A glass mercury thermometer with a long silver tip, gradated from 6 to 108, sits on a granite counter.
A glass, silver-tipped mercury thermometer.
A traditional wooden stringhopper press sits on a cherry veneer table.
An idiyappa ural.
A bedspread depicts tigers peering through dense jungle foliage.
A bedspread printed with tigers and jungle foliage.
A vintage Magnavox Solid State radio with an AM/FM dial, five silver knobs, a walnut finish, and tan speakers.
A Magnavox AM/FM radio.
A batik tapestry with a thick, fraying black border and a red background, depicting a Kandyan perahera procession with dancers and flag- and staff-bearers surrounding a decorated elephant bearing a canopied carriage.
A red, gold, and black batik tapestry depicting a Perahera ceremony.
A coconut scraper with a black, serrated, rotating metal blade, a wooden crank, green metal body, and vise grip is attached to a laminate counter, a black bowl full of coconut scrapings in front of it.
A coconut scraper and a bowl of coconut flakes.
A Tamil man wit black hair and a mustache poses on a low wall in a dark blue windbreaker, a plaid shirt, and jeans in front of Stony Brook University Hospital.
A Tamil man in front of Stony Brook University Hospital.
A maroon sarong with batik dots set close together to form interconnecting diamond shapes.
A maroon sarong with a batik design.
A tunnel of pale, puckered flesh, dilated by a clear plastic depressor, ends in a dark divot.
An umbilical camera port scar from laparoscopic surgery.
A round brass plaque depicts a bird surrounded by vines and petals, with portions of the design intentionally oxidized.
Brass repousse art with a bird motif.
A brass vase with a flared lip, embossed and oxidized with patterns, holds five decorative willow branches.
A brass vase with decorative branches.
A carved coconut shell tortoise with a bobbing head and flippers sits on a cherry veneer table.
A tortoise carved from a coconut shell.
Gold bangles, earrings, and rings, some set with diamonds, semiprecious stones, or paste gems, sit on a walnut desk next to jewelry containers from Batticaloa.
Assorted gold earrings, rings, and bangles.
A small oxidized brass statuette of Pillaiyar and an ebony wood carving of a horse with perked up ears, a white eye, and reins draped over its neck.
A statuette of Pillaiyar and a carved horse figurine.
A small marble mortar and pestle sits on a hardwood floor.
A marble mortar and pestle.
A brass repousse plaque depicts three elephants carrying royalty in canopied saddles, surrounded by drummers and footmen holding aloft banners, decorative staves, and parasols.
Brass repousse art of a ceremonial procession.
A single frame of a right view of a transvaginal ultrasound highlights a slightly dark area with black spots labeled 'Rt Ov' and a large dark gray shadow with a streaky asymmetrical border labeled '?|'
An abnormal transvaginal ultrasound.
A bloodstained wad of cotton on a torn piece of tissue, held between brown fingers with pointed fingernails.
A bloodstained wad of cotton on a tissue.
Three hammered brass plaques with scalloped, beaded edges and elephant motifs hang on a wall.
Three hammered brass plaques.
An elephant carved from ebony wood, with white eyes and nails and an inwardly curled trunk, stands on a cherry veneer table.
An elephant carved from ebony wood.
An original Koh-i-Noor Rapidomatic, a balanced, tip-weighted drafting pencil with an off-white body, knurled metal grip and lead sleeve, metal clip, and rotating hardness indicator ring.
A 1984 Koh-i-Noor Rapidomatic drafting pencil.
A brass plaque depicts a woman dancer wearing anklets, bangles, and an ornamented chignon in relief, with 'Sri Lanka' embossed in the lower right.
A brass repousse art of an ornamented woman dancer.
An aluminum puttu kulal, with a tall, narrow, cylindrical top, a wide base, a black plastic handle, and a lid with a black knob sits on a cherry veneer table.
A puttu kulal.
A curly-haired Tamil woman in glasses, jeans, and a striped shirt stands by a magnolia tree growing near a brick building.
A Tamil woman standing by a magnolia tree.
A brass two-tiered oil lamp with embossed and oxidized patterns and crowned with a Sri Lankan jungle fowl stands in an empty corner.
A two-tiered brass oil lamp.
Traditional Sri Lankan handcrafts sit on a walnut table: wooden birds perched on crooked branches; a coconut husk monkey with glassy eyes and folded arms; and a family of wooden elephants painted red, black, and white.
Carved wooden birds, a coconut husk monkey, and carved, painted elephants.
Three Sri Lankan masks, painted red, green, yellow, white, and black, with bulging eyes and protruding tongues: one small Naga Raksha mask, and one small and one large Gara Raksha mask.
Three Raksha masks.
An unfolded, blank, light blue aerogram with a USA stamp, its wings labeled with numbered directions, lies on a walnut table.
A blank aerogram.
A tourist mug, yellowed with age, reads 'I Heart NY' in red bold lettering.
A vintage "I Heart NY" mug.