Field photograph·C06005

Life on the terrace, Miss Atterman at Machairas

Woman sewing while seated on a wooden chair on a paved terrace beside a whitewashed wall and a wooden door.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C06005. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A woman with short hair sits on a wooden chair with a rush seat, sewing a white cloth in her lap and glancing toward the camera. She wears a sleeveless patterned dress, a pendant and strapped shoes. Behind her is a rough whitewashed wall, a tall wooden door on the right and a smaller doorway on the left, under a wooden roof edge.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Miss Atterman sitting on a wooden chair on a paved terrace, sewing, beside a whitewashed wall and a wooden door at Machairas.
Description, scan 2
A woman sits on a wooden chair on a brick-paved terrace, sewing or mending a white cloth in her lap and glancing toward the camera. Behind her a whitewashed wall runs along the terrace, with a smaller doorway at left and a tall, weathered plank door at right, under a row of wooden roof beams. The print is mounted on a card with a border and a small number label in the lower corner.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Life on the terrace, Miss Atterman. Machairas.

Swedish, as on the record

Livet på terrassen, fröken Atterman. Macheras. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen

Swedish, as on the record

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