Sri Lanka, Boursse, Esaias, Labourer and a toddy tapper, Two men stand outside along a road on uneven ground. The man on the left wears only a hip-dress (veshti, lungi), folded in half and tucked in at the waist. A wide-brimmed old hat (toppiya) hangs above his ears. This man can be identified by his hat as a toepas, probably brought from Jaffna to Colombo for work. The man on the right is a Sinhalese palm-wine tapper and belongs to the duravo caste (Durava). He wears a high hip-dress (veshti, wrapped around the waist in the Sinhalese manner. On his right hip he carries a large earthenware pot (labu katey) to collect the palm wine. The pot is suspended in a net of cords, with which it can also be worn around his waist. At the waist is the end of a bundle of tools, a case with knives for cutting the coconut palm flower and a hammer (thalanaya) for beating the flower flat. The sap from the palm flower ferments very quickly in the open air - the slightly alcoholic drink was called tolwage