Leventis Municipal Museum

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Christina Roditou
Author: 
Christina Roditou
Description: 

A shepherd in Larnaca carrying his crook on his shoulders. He is wearing a military-style jacket over a dark coloured shirt, pleated baggy trousers (vraka), probably black, leather boots and a white headscarf. He is carrying a shoulder bag made of tanned goatskin (vourka). 

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Christina Roditou
Author: 
Christina Roditou
Description: 

A shepherd photographed in Astromeritis carrying his crook on his shoulders. He is wearing a dark shirt, a pleated baggy trousers (vraka), propably black, a dark coloured sash and leather boots. He is carrying a shoulder bag made of tanned goatskin (vourka). 

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Christina Roditou
Author: 
Christina Roditou
Description: 

A child photographed standing in a field on the way to Kakopetria. She is wearing a knee-length striped dark coloured dress, leather boots and a white headscarf.

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Christina Roditou
Author: 
Christina Roditou
Description: 

An elder woman photographed while spinning. She is wearing a dark coloured dress, a striped apron and a black headscarf.

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Christina Roditou
Author: 
Christina Roditou
Description: 

A re-enactment of a traditional Greek Cypriot wedding in Famagusta. The bride is wearing a white wedding dress and the groom the costume worn by Greek Cypriots at the urban centres in Cyprus until the second half of the 20th century, comprised of a shirt, a vraka (baggy pleated breeches) of black cotton, zostra (a coloured silk sash), yelekkin (sleeveless waistcoat), a black headscarf, and podines (top-boots).

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Christina Roditou
Author: 
Christina Roditou
Description: 

A shepherd holding a lamb near the church of Agios Georgios Makris in Larnaca. He is wearing a dark coloured shirt, black pleated baggy trousers (vraka), a dark coloured sash and leather boots. He is carrying a shoulder bag made of tanned goatskin (vourka). 

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