Field photograph·C00478·1927
The theatre at Soli, dancing on the orchestra
Description
Men and boys in hats and dark waistcoats dance in a long hand-linked line across bare ground, with one dancer leaping in the centre. Behind them stand cut stone blocks and an earth bank, and at right several seated men sit beside a wheelbarrow. A woman in a headscarf is at bottom left among onlookers.
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- Description, scan 2
- People dance in a long chain and circle on an open, gravelly area beside a ruined wall of large stone blocks. A dancer in a dark waistcoat leaps in the centre with arms outstretched while others hold hands around him. At right, two musicians sit on folding chairs, one with a drum-like instrument, and a wheelbarrow and earth banks lie behind them.
- Description, scan 3
- A large group of men and boys, many in hats and waistcoats, hold hands in lines and a circle on the dusty ground in front of a rough stone wall. A man in a dark waistcoat leaps in the centre, while at right several seated men with instruments sit beside stone blocks. Earth banks and ruined stone walls rise behind, with low hills in the distance.
English, translated from the Swedish record
The theatre, dancing on the orchestra.
Swedish, as on the record
Teatern, dans på orkestran. Soli Svenska Cypernexpeditionen
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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)