After the dancers and towards the end of the pageant comes the main feature of the perahera; the tusker carrying the casket containing the Sacred Tooth Relic.
Kolpity from the Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo Sri Lanka c.1845 #IMG683 ‘Colpitty, from the cinnamon-garden’ Plate 6 from ‘Scenery and reminiscences of Ceylon by John DESCHAMPS London:1845. Image submitted by Niranjan Karunathilake