Field photograph·C01324·1929

Grave field III, work in progress at Marion

Two people digging with pickaxes into a stony hillside during work at Marion, grave field III — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01324. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Two people bend over to dig into a stony slope: one kneels in a striped skirt and white headscarf, the other stands in a white blouse and dark skirt, both swinging pickaxes. Loose stones and sparse grass cover the ground, and a hill rises behind them. In the hazy distance a blurred animal, possibly cattle, stands on the slope.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Two women in long skirts and headscarves bend over and dig into a stony, sloping ground with pick-like tools. The left worker is partly hidden in the hollow they are cutting, and grass and loose stones cover the slope. Faint hills rise behind them, and a blurred figure, possibly an animal, stands on the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Grave field III, work in progress at Marion. Two people.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Gravfält III, arbetsbild från Marion. Två personer.