Field photograph·JL233

Cypriot clothes chest, so-called sendudzin

Carved wooden clothes chest standing on stone blocks, with children behind it against a plastered wall
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL233. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A wooden clothes chest with a flat lid stands on stone blocks on a dirt ground. Its front is covered in incised geometric patterns of diamonds, triangles and zigzag bands. Behind it a boy in a floral shirt stands at left, while a younger child in a striped shirt stands beside a blurred figure at right, against a weathered wall.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Carved clothes chest, so-called sendudzin, standing outdoors in front of a plastered wall with children nearby.
Description, scan 2
A carved wooden clothes chest stands outdoors on bare ground, its front covered with geometric patterns of diagonal lines, triangles and small star motifs. Behind it a boy in a patterned shirt stands by a doorway and looks at the camera, while a boy in a striped shirt and a blurred figure stand against a plastered wall. Two pale stone blocks lie beneath the chest, and part of another person is visible at the left edge.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cypriot clothes chest, so-called sendudzin.

Swedish, as on the record

Cypriotisk klädkista s.k. sendudzin.