Field photograph·C01245·1929

Work in progress at Marion: women in long skirts

Women in headscarves and long skirts working in a sandy excavation trench at Marion, with a ladder at the edge. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01245. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Four women in headscarves and long skirts work in a sandy excavation trench, one holding a bucket and another bending over with a cord or rope. A fifth figure stands on the spoil heap in the distance. A wooden ladder stands at the right edge, a second bucket sits at the bottom of the cut, and behind lies a flat field with a low white wall, a building and tall trees.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Five women in long dark skirts and white head scarves work in a deep excavation trench at Marion. Two carry buckets and one lowers a bucket on a rope into the cut at the front. A wooden ladder stands at the trench edge on the right, with spoil heaps around it, and a flat field, trees and a white building lie behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress at Marion. Women in long skirts.

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild från Marion. Kvinnor klädda i långa kjolar.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").