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Field photograph·JL198

Grinding grain (JL198)

Woman grinding grain with a hand mill on a cobbled yard, with baskets and jugs beside a house wall
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL198. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A woman kneels on a woven mat on a cobbled yard, turning the upper stone of a hand mill with both hands. Behind her a plastered wall has a shuttered window, where a second person is partly visible in the dark opening. Two wicker baskets and a stool sit nearby, and two jugs stand on a wooden table beside a tree at right.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Woman kneeling to turn a hand mill outside a whitewashed house, with jugs on a table behind her.
Description, scan 2
A young woman with a long plaited hair kneels on a woven mat and turns the upper stone of a hand mill, a pair of round stone discs, with both hands. Behind her, a wooden table holds two pottery jugs beside a shuttered window, and a woven basket sits on the pebbled ground. A tree and a small stool with a woven seat stand at the edges of the paved yard.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Grinding grain. Cyprus Handicrafts. Compare picture JL554 taken on the same occasion.

Swedish, as on the record

Malning av säd. Cypern Hantverk.Jämför bild JL554 tagen vid samma tillfälle.