Field photograph·C02762·1930

Work in progress with men and women at Mersinaki

Men and women working at an excavation at Mersinaki, several of them laughing, with shovels and a bucket — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02762. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Workers at the Mersinaki excavation stand among a spoil heap and deep-cut trench, many holding shovels. In the foreground a smiling man in a wide-brimmed hat stands beside a laughing woman holding a metal bucket, while women in headscarves smile nearby. Further figures work on the slope and a dark wheeled wagon stands in the middle distance against a dry hillside.

Other scan of this record (1)

Description, scan 2: Several women in headscarves and long dresses work in a deep cutting in dry hillside soil, one with a shovel and another crouching in the pit. A man in a straw hat, waistcoat and sash stands at left, and a woman in the centre holds a metal bucket and laughs with her hand raised to her face. Further back, figures stand on the spoil and at the edge of the cutting, with a wooden frame and a tree on the slope.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Work in progress with men and women, many of the women laughing and smiling, as well as the man to the left. Mersinaki.

Swedish, as on the record

Arbetsbild med män och kvinnor, många av kvinnorna skrattar och ler, likaså mannen till vänster. Mersinaki. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

Folk och Fä 4