Field photograph·C00646·1928

Five people outdoors at Vouni, including Einar Gjerstad and Alfred Westholm

Five people resting outdoors at Vouni, including Einar Gjerstad and Alfred Westholm, with a bare hill behind them.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00646. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A woman in a light dress and headscarf stands at left holding a small cup. Two men recline on a striped mattress in the centre, one drinking from a cup and both in dark fez-style caps, while a man in a striped shirt sits at right. Behind them a scrubby hill rises with a few small trees.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Five people outdoors at Vouni, with two men resting on a striped mattress and drinking tea.
Description, scan 2
A woman in a long white dress and head covering stands at left holding a cup. Two men lie on a striped mattress, one drinking from a cup, both wearing dark fez-style caps, with a cushion beside them. A third man sits at right and a fifth man is partly visible beside a basket, with a bare hill, scattered shrubs and a small tree behind them.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Five people outdoors. The woman on the left, Eleni, has braided hair. Einar Gjerstad and Alfred Westholm lie on a mattress drinking tea, dressed in fezzes (headgear). Cushion and blanket. Two more men sit on the right. Hill. Vouni.

Swedish, as on the record

Fem personer utomhus. Kvinnan till vänster, Eleni, har flätat hår över huvudet. Einar Gjerstad och Alfred Westholm ligger på en madrass och dricker te klädda i fez (huvudbonad). Kudde och filt. Två till män sitter till höger. Kulle. Vouni Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)