Field photograph·C01445·1929

Erik Sjöqvist at the wind-blown tent, Ayios Iakovos

Erik Sjöqvist seated beside a wind-blown tent on dry ground, with hills behind, at Ayios Iakovos — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01445. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a light shirt and hat sits on a wooden crate at right, beside blankets and bedding spread on the dry ground. Behind him a canvas tent with its front flap open stands on bare, stony ground, with a wooden box and a bucket beside it. Scrubby bushes and bare brown hills fill the background under a pale sky.

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Description, scan 2: A canvas tent with its front open stands on stony, bare ground at left, with a wooden crate beside it. At right a man in a hat and light shirt sits on a wooden box, while a second person lies partly under a billowing canvas spread over the earth. Scattered stones and small tins lie in the foreground, with dry hills and sparse trees behind.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Erik Sjöqvist by the wind-blown tent. Ayios Iakovos.

Swedish, as on the record

Erik Sjöqvist vid det sönderblåsta tältet. Ajios Jakovos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen