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Field photograph·JL323

Ethnology photograph from Cyprus, JL 323

Interior of a whitewashed room with a standing man, a wooden table set with metal jugs and funnels, a barrel and a basket.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, JL323. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A whitewashed room with a plain wooden table in the centre, set with metal jugs, a funnel, cups and a pottery jar. A man in a jacket stands behind the table, facing the camera. A metal funnel sits on a wooden barrel in the foreground, with a wicker basket by the arched doorway at left and rush-seated chairs beside a built hearth at right.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Man standing behind a wooden table covered with metal funnels, jugs and bottles in a whitewashed room with an arched doorway
Description, scan 2
A man in a jacket stands behind a long wooden table holding funnel-shaped metal objects, jugs, bottles and a tin jug. A rush-seated chair stands in front of the table, with a wooden barrel, a wicker basket and a clay jar on the floor. An arched doorway on the left and a stone hearth on the right frame the whitewashed room.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Cyprus. Ethnology. JL 323. The picture shows a person, a stool and objects relating to handicraft.

Swedish, as on the record

Cypern Etnologi. JL 323