Photograph of Adem Mıstık no. 024

Photograph of Adem Mıstık (nickname of Mustafa) Hasan (1907-1934). It was taken in the Foto Fevzi Akarsu studio around 1926. The young man, with short hair and a thin moustache, is posing standing in front of a painted rolled background, the same as that of No. 025. His right hand is resting on the top of a low corner table decorated with a bunch of flowers. He is wearing a headdress referred to as an Arab fez (arap fesi), a white silk-cotton shirt with a double buttoned collar, and over the shirt a three-buttoned jack­et of black fabric, decorated with a carnation on the collar. This western-style jacket is matched with white baggy knee-breeches. Around his waist is a red sash and above it is tied a piece of spotted cotton textile. His colourful stockings, which reach up to the knee-breeches, are knitted with the traditional five-needle technique; the pattern consists of horizontal series of checkers/squares (box-design, kutulu; kutu = small box). He also wears black leather elastic-sided ankle boots (lastikli gonçlu potin). The photograph was donated by Hüseyin Mıstıkoğlu. Village: Kioneli (Gönyeli), Nicosia District.