Field photograph·JL322

John Lindros and another man smoking a hookah at a café

Men and a boy sit in a whitewashed café room, and a seated man at right smokes a hookah through a long hose.
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL322. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A whitewashed room with an arched alcove above a hearth, shelves holding bottles and jars, and a hanging lamp. Eight people are present: a boy at front left, several older men seated on wooden chairs, and an apron-wearing man standing by the hearth. A seated man at right draws on a long hose of a glass-based hookah, and two hookahs stand on the floor beside small cups on saucers.

Other scans of this record (2)

  • Men seated in a café interior, several smoking hookahs, with a boy on the left and a man in an apron at the stove
  • Men seated and standing in a whitewashed café interior, a boy in front, with water pipes on the floor.
Description, scan 2
Interior of a whitewashed café with a large hooded fireplace niche. Several men sit on wooden chairs, two of them smoking hookahs with long tubes and glass bases on the floor, and a coffee tray stands beside them. A boy in a knitted jacket looks towards the camera on the left, while a man in an apron stands by a copper pot at the stove and shelves of bottles line the back wall.
Description, scan 3
Several men and a boy sit on wooden chairs and stand in a whitewashed room with a domed hearth niche high on the left wall. Shelves with jars and bottles stand against the back wall, and two glass-based water pipes with long hoses lie on the floor. One bearded seated man holds a hose to his mouth while the others look toward the camera.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Copy photograph. Café. John Lindros and another man smoke a hookah. Cyprus. Ethnology. Renroneg. 12.210 JL 322.

Swedish, as on the record

Repro. Cypernexpeditionen. Kafé. John Lindros och en annan man röker vattenpipa. Cypern Etnologi. Renroneg. 12.210 JL 322.