Political life and national culture of Ceylon (1970-1972)

A car drives along a city street.

A festive demonstration under communist slogans on the streets of Colombo.

Members of a youth organization, wearing red ties and shorts, march in formation.

Banners with slogans hang above the demonstration column.

A model of a ship with its head in one of the demonstration columns.

Demonstrators walk by.

Representatives of a youth organization carry a portrait of V.I. Lenin.

Members of a paramilitary youth organization, wearing red berets with five-pointed stars, walk by.

Girls perform a national dance to the accompaniment of a drum on the street, barefoot.

Men perform folk dances.

Masked dancers on the seashore during a religious dance ritual.

Performing dances to the accompaniment of a drum.

Girls dancing on the street.

A pattern in the form of a two-headed bird.

Drummers performing.

A painted statue of one of the deities.

Men performing a national dance to the accompaniment of drums, elements of the costume of one of the dancing men.