Field photograph·C01279·1929

Women and a dog at Marion, work in progress

Women and a child working in an excavation at Marion, with a white dog lying on the spoil heap. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01279. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Several women and a child in headscarves work in trenches at Marion, some digging and some standing with buckets. A white dog lies on the spoil heap in the middle, and a surveying instrument on a tripod stands at the left. Behind them a flat plain with fields stretches to a flat-topped hill under a pale sky.

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Description, scan 2: Women in headscarves and long dresses work around shallow trenches and spoil heaps at the excavation at Marion. A dog lies on the dirt in the foreground, and a tripod with a telescope-like instrument stands at the left. Metal buckets and coiled rope lie on the ground, and open fields and low hills stretch behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress. Women. A dog. Marion.

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild. Kvinnor. En hund. Marion. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").