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Field photograph·C08218·1928

Camels at Oura

Camels standing beside two canvas tents on dry, open ground at Oura, with a man holding a bucket.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C08218. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A man in a light shirt, dark shorts and a hat stands at centre-left holding a bucket beside several camels. Two canvas tents with open doorways stand in the middle distance on flat, grassy ground. Low hills run across the background, and a dirt track crosses the foreground.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Camels and a man holding a bucket beside canvas tents at Oura
Description, scan 2
Two canvas tents stand on open, scrubby grassland with low rounded hills behind them. In the foreground a man in a wide-brimmed hat, pale shirt and dark trousers holds a bucket beside a camel that has lowered its head. Another camel stands behind it, and the ground is covered with low bushes and grass.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Camels. Oura.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Kameler. Oura. Svenska Cypernexpeditionen