Field photograph·C00756·1929

Pub picture at Ayios Iakovos

Nine men gathered around a wooden table playing cards in a whitewashed vaulted room at Ayios Iakovos. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00756. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Men sit and stand around a rough wooden table in a whitewashed vaulted room, with a wooden door and a hanging oil lamp behind them. Several hold playing cards, and the seated men wear jackets, scarves, caps and fezzes. A doorway arch opens at the left, and a man stands in it looking toward the camera.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Nine men sit and stand around a small wooden table in a whitewashed room, several of them holding playing cards. A plank door stands in the background with a dark coat hanging beside it, and a lamp hangs from the ceiling at the top of the frame. The men wear jackets, scarves and caps; the man on the right holds cards in both hands, and the figure at the lower left is cut off by the edge of the frame.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Pub picture. Nine men at the pub.

Swedish, as on the record

Krogbild. Ajios Jakovos Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4