Field photograph·JL554
Grinding grain. Cyprus handicraft
Description
A young woman with dark hair, in a pale blouse and long skirt, kneels on a striped woven mat and turns the upper stone of a hand mill with both hands. The two round stone millstones sit on the cobbled ground, with a wicker basket and a wooden stool nearby. Behind her, a window with wooden shutters and a small wooden table hold two pottery jugs with handles.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- A young woman with dark hair pulled back kneels on a striped mat, turning the upper stone of a hand mill with both hands. The two stacked millstones sit on a pebbled yard in front of a whitewashed wall with a shuttered window. Behind her are two reddish-brown jugs on a wooden bench, two wicker baskets, and a low rush-seated stool at the left, with a tree at the right.
English, translated from the Swedish record
Grinding grain. Cyprus handicraft. Compare photograph JL198, taken on the same occasion.
Swedish, as on the record
Malning av säd. Cypern Hantverk. Jämför bild JL198 tagen vid samma tillfälle.