Field photograph·C02411

Vivi and Stefan Gjerstad riding a camel in Nicosia

Vivi and Stefan Gjerstad riding a camel past a stone-columned building in Nicosia
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02411. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A woman in a hat and dark coat sits behind a young boy on a camel with a patterned saddle cloth and ropes, its head in the lower right. Behind them stands a building with stone columns and a balcony with potted plants. Two children stand on the dirt road at left, with a mud-brick wall beyond.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Vivi and Stefan Gjerstad riding a camel past a stone-columned porch
Description, scan 2
A woman in a hat sits behind a child on a camel with a patterned saddle cloth and rope harness, the camel's head lowered toward the camera. Two children stand in the road to the left, and a porch with stone columns and a tiled roof stands on the right. A low plastered wall and hills lie behind, and part of another person shows in the bottom right corner.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Vivi and Stefan Gjerstad riding a camel. Some other children are visible in the background. Nicosia. (Query.)

Swedish, as on the record

Vivi och Stefan Gjerstad och rider kamel. Några andra barn syns i bakgrunden. Nicosia. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen fråga

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 5