Field photograph·C01697·1929

Women carrying buckets at Ayios Iakovos

Woman at the edge of a trench at Ayios Iakovos, lowering a bucket on a rope into the excavation — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01697. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A woman in a dark head covering and striped dress stands on the spoil-heaped edge of a deep trench, holding a rope from which a bucket hangs into the cut. Behind her, two more people work beside wooden poles and a second bucket on the ground, with a low ridge of hills and scrubby, open land beyond.

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Description, scan 2: A woman in a headscarf and striped long dress stands at the edge of a trench, holding a rope from which a bucket hangs down into the dark cutting. Several other women in headscarves work further back among spoil heaps and wooden poles, and a range of hills fills the distant background. The ground is dry, pale and stony.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Carrying buckets at Ayios Iakovos. Women are working with buckets at the excavation of Ayios Iakovos.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Hinkning. Ajios Jakovos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen