Cabinet card portrait depicting Miss M. W. Leitch seated among five Tamil girls in traditional dress, titled in print on the mount: “Miss M. W. Leitch, and Hindoo Girls. Oodooville, Jaffna Ceylon.” Leitch, a missionary with the American Ceylon Mission (ACM), was stationed in the Tamil-speaking northern region of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, where the ACM operated girls’ boarding schools. The image reflects the gendered and colonial dynamics of missionary pedagogy in South Asia, with the students posed respectfully around the missionary teacher, who holds a book and parasol. Studio background and fur rug beneath suggest the image was taken in a local photographic studio, likely in the late 1870s or early 1880s.