Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·Csn3225

Winnowing: people with tools at an excavation

Five men winnowing grain with long wooden forks on a threshing floor, with chaff and dust drifting in the air.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn3225. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Five men, barefoot and wearing white shirts and dark trousers, work with long-handled wooden forks on heaps of threshed grain, tossing it so that chaff and dust blow away to the left. The men at the front wear a dark hat, a straw hat and a dark cap, and two more bend over the heap in the background against a plain sky and low bushes. The photograph is mounted on a card with a printed caption beneath.

English, as on the record

WINNOWING. "The corn of the Island… is of the finest quality. The wheat although bearded, is very large, and the bread made from it extremely white and good." Edward Clarke-1801 (Travels in Various Countries) Mangoian Bros.

English, as on the record

WINNOWING. "The corn of the Island… is of the finest quality. The wheat although bearded, is very large, and the bread made from it extremely white and good." Edward Clarke-1801 (Travels in Various Countries) Mangoian Bros.