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Field photograph·Csn3145

Handicrafts at Klirou: dish of fired clay and a windbreak for an outdoor fire

Clay dish and clay windbreak for an outdoor fire on a rough wooden table at Klirou village
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3145. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A round, shallow clay dish with a raised rim stands on a rough plank table supported by sticks, and a sleeved hand rests near its rim at the left edge. Beside it lies a lumpy, curved clay windbreak with a hollow and a wavy upper edge. Behind, plastered mud-brick houses, one with a tiled roof and a stone wall with a wooden door, stand on bare, stony ground with a pile of logs at right.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Round clay dish and a curved clay windbreak for an outdoor fire, on a wooden bench at Klirou
Description, scan 2
A round, shallow clay dish with a raised rim stands on the left of a rough wooden bench, held upright by a hand in a light sleeve at the top left edge. On the right lies a curved, lumpy clay windbreak with a hole in its side and a rough, dark surface. Behind them are a stone-walled building with a tiled roof and a mud-walled house in an open dirt yard with split logs at the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Handicrafts, Cyprus. Klirou village, farmstead A. On the left a dish of fired clay; on the right a windbreak for an outdoor ember fire.

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Hantverk. Cypern Klirou by GÅRD A Till vänster fat av brännd lera. " höger vindskydd för glödeld utomhus

Swedish, as on the record

T.v. fat av bränd lera, t.h. vindskydd för glödeld utomhus.

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)