Field photograph·Csn1724·1927–1931

Building, people and a tent in North Africa

Crowded open square with many light tents and people in light robes, beside a long whitewashed building in North Africa — Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn1724. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A large crowd of people in light robes fills a dusty open square, with many light-coloured tents set among them. On the right stands a long whitewashed building with arched doorways and small windows, while low flat-roofed buildings and domes stretch across the background under a wide, flat horizon.

English, translated from the Swedish record

North Africa. The picture shows a building, people and a tent.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Nord-Afrika.