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Field photograph·C08436·1927–1931

North Africa

Street scene in North Africa with an arched passage, people, and a loaded donkey or mule.
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C08436. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A narrow street with a whitewashed building on the left and an arched passage ahead. A donkey or mule with a load stands among several people, some in hooded white or dark robes, while sacks are piled on a cart at right. Shuttered shopfronts and hanging cloths line the street.

English, translated from the Swedish record

North Africa.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Nord-Afrika.