Field photograph·C01459·1929

Work in progress at Ayios Iakovos, with many people wearing hats

Excavation at Ayios Iakovos with a crowd of people in hats and headscarves working and standing around a shallow trench — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01459. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A group of about twenty people gathers around a shallow excavated trench on a dry, open hillside. Several men in hats kneel and crouch at the trench edge, some digging, while women in headscarves and men in hats stand and watch. Bags or sacks sit on the left and a long tool lies across the ground in the foreground; low hills and a single tree stand in the distance.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: A crowd of people in shirts, waistcoats and wide-brimmed hats, some with white headscarves, stands and kneels around a shallow excavation trench on dry, open ground. Several men crouch at the edge of the cut, and a row of small filled sacks or baskets lies on the left. Low hills and a few scattered trees fill the background.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress. Ayios Iakovos. Many people, hats.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild. Ajios Jakovos. Många människor, hattar.