395: Karpathos

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/2/2/69
Level Item
Dimensions 56 x 74 cm
Scope and Content Card base with five ink illustrations attached, each labelled beneath with a pasted letter from a-r. The number 395 is pasted in the lower left corner. "Karpathos. R.M. Dawkins" is written in ink in the lower right corner. Each image has beside it a later annotation in pencil giving a bibliographic reference. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Karpathos was visited by R.M. Dawkins in 1903, and described, with its dialect, in two papers in the Annual. a. Sketch map of Karpathos, based on the British Admiralty Chart. b, c. Elymbos. (b) The village; (c) the approach from the sea. d. Wooden lock, of a type found in many Greek islands, though it is fast disappearing. e. Wooden olive-press and olive-mill: these presses are now everywhere superseded by iron screw-presses."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Studies of Modern Greek Life"