Title:

[A Corpus Christi Day celebration] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1918]

Description:

The photo depicts a group of people festively dressed posing in front of an altar with a painting of the Holy Mother (?). The altar is covered with a white cloth, decorated with flowers and green birch tree branches. According to its owner, the photo comes from 1918 and depicts a group of people after an annual church celebration of the Corpus Christi Day in the village of Kokoszyce, a parish that constituted a part of the parish commune of Pszów as a “kuratoryjna” [curatorian] parish ; Corpus Christi Day 1918, Kokoszyce, district Pszów, com. Rybnik ; The photo sent to the contest named “Photography of the Polish village pre-1948” organized in 1983 by the quarterly “Fotografia” (Photography) and the weekly “Nowa Wieś” (New village). Copy of the photo kept at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (former Institute for the History of Material Culture)

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

Corpus Christi Day ; ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; spiritual culture ; religion ; religious feast ; church celebration ; religious rites ; religiosity ; Christian tradition ; sacred art ; altar ; clothing ; Kokoszyce (Wodzisław Śląski, Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

IAiE PAN, no. call 127-20

Source:

IAiE PAN, nr inw. 127-20

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, may be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms.

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Closed