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Field photograph·C01699·1929

Policeman outside his tent at Ayios Iakovos

Policeman seated outside a large canvas tent at Ayios Iakovos, with a young girl standing beside him.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C01699. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a military-style uniform with a belt, tall puttee-style leggings and a fez-like cap sits on a wooden chair in front of a large pale canvas tent. A young girl in a long light dress stands beside him, one hand resting near his shoulder, and a metal lantern hangs from the tent pole. Dry hills rise behind, and two small figures stand far off to the right on the flat ground.

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Description, scan 2
A man in a dark uniform with a belt and leg wraps sits on a chair in front of a large canvas tent, and a woman in a light dress stands beside him with her hand on his shoulder. A lantern hangs inside the open tent entrance, and guy ropes run out to pegs across the dry, stony ground. Low hills rise behind, with two small figures far off on the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

A policeman (sapties, "zaptié" from Turkish zaptiyet. An old word used during the Ottoman Empire and during British colonial rule in Cyprus for the military police) outside his tent, and a woman. Ayios Iakovos.

Swedish, as on the record

En polis (sapties, "zaptié" från turkiska zaptiyet. Ett gammalt ord som användes under ottomanska riket samt under britternas koloniala styre på Cypern för den militära polisen) utanför sitt tält, samt en kvinna. Ajios Jakovos. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)