Field photograph·C01264·1929

Work in progress at Marion

Workers and onlookers standing on a mound of excavated earth at Marion, with low hills and shrubs behind — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01264. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A group of people stands and gathers along a ridge of dug earth and rough stone, with shrubs growing across the slope. Several men wear caps, jackets or sashes, two women wear headscarves and long dresses, and a small child crouches at the lower left. Behind them a flat, pale landscape runs to low hills under a bright sky, while cloth, a board and a tool lie among the bushes in the foreground.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Several people stand on a rocky, scrubby slope at Marion, some in caps, headscarves and long dresses or wide trousers, with a small child crouching at the left edge. In the foreground a low heap of excavated earth runs across the slope beside small wooden stakes and a flat stone slab. Open hilly country stretches behind them under a pale sky.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress at Marion.

Swedish, as on the record

Marion. Arbetsbild. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen.