Field photograph·C01589

Erik Sjöqvist and Miss Atterman with camels at the Karpas peninsula

Erik Sjöqvist and Miss Atterman standing with loaded camels in front of stone buildings on the Karpas peninsula.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01589. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a cap and jacket stands beside a loaded camel, holding its head, while a woman in a helmet, light jacket and skirt stands at right beside another camel with a pack. Stone walls of buildings rise behind them, and more camels are partly visible at the left. Snow lies in patches on the bare ground.

Other scan of this record (1)

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Description, scan 2
Two people stand beside camels on a dirt track in front of stone buildings. A man in a cap, jacket and light trousers stands at the head of a loaded camel, while a woman in a light coat, skirt and hat stands beside a second camel with packs on its back. Another camel stands at the left by a low stone wall, and rubble stones lie in the foreground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Erik Sjöqvist and Miss Atterman with camels. The Karpas peninsula.

Swedish, as on the record

Erik Sjöqvist och fröken Atterman med kameler. Karpassos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen