Field photograph·C01141·1929

Animal masks on the last day of the carnival at Marion

Three people in animal-skin and mask costumes stand together outside a doorway, last day of the carnival at Marion. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01141. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Three costumed people stand side by side in front of a dark doorway. The man on the left wears a pale mask with eye holes, a loose striped jacket and pale trousers, and holds a cane and a round metal object. The central figure is wrapped in a long shaggy sheepskin with a hood and mask, and the man on the right has a dark face, a tall white cone-shaped hat and a sash.

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Description, scan 2: Three people in costume stand in a whitewashed room before a wooden door. On the left, a figure with a pale cloth wrapped over the head and face holds a staff and a metal bowl on a chain; the middle figure is covered in shaggy fleece, and on the right a figure with a dark face wears a tall pale cloth cap and a sash. Two seated people are partly visible at the left edge.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Animal masks, last day of the carnival. Marion.

Swedish, as on the record

Djurmasker, sista karnevalsdagen. Marion. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

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