Photograph of four women in the fields no. 048

Photograph of four women in the fields near Kioneli (Gönyeli), taken in 1946. The four women stand in a row, each holding her wood-handled sickle in the right hand and a bunch of barley in the left. They wear clothes suitable for work in the fields. The first woman on the left side of the photograph is Ayten Erkasap, born in 1938. She wears a white headscarf (made of humayın), which falls loosely on her shoulders and chest, a light-coloured, loom-woven sleeved dress, the front lower part of which is covered by an apron with a pocket, and traditional leather boots (çangar çizmesi – peasant boots made by a bootmaker, çangar, Greek tsagkáris). The second young woman is Fatma Arabacıoğlu, born in 1932. The scarf (yemeni) which covers the back of her head, leaving exposed most of her black hair, is decorated with fine lace and tassels. Her dress is made of a striped fabric, with the stripes arranged vertically on the upper part and diagonally on the cloche (guloş) skirt. The dress has a collar bordered with ready-made (machine-made) lace, and is closed with buttons in front down to the waist. She also wears, like all four women in the photograph, traditional boots made especially for women; they come up to the middle of the shin, and are provided with tassels. The third from the left is an older woman, the mother of the girls, Emine Kofalı (1910-1990). She wears a two-piece çarşaf (upper part and skirt). Her headscarf is made of indigo blue silk and linen cloth, and covers the whole head and the forehead down to the eyebrows; her long hair is plaited in two braids, which fall on either side on the chest. The lower part of the çarşaf is made of silk and cotton and is tied with a girdle at the waist. Her dress (entari) is loom-woven. The boots have red tassels. The fourth woman is Kezban Dereli, born in 1938. She wears a white headscarf (made of humayın cloth), the ends of which are tied under the chin, and a dress made of a fabric with checker patterns; it has a collar and is buttoned in front. Her arms are covered with loom-woven cuffs. Source: Ayten Erkasap. Village: Kioneli (Gönyeli), Nicosia District.