Title:

[A young couple and wedding guests] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1930]

Description:

The photo depicts a newlywed couple: a woman in a white dress with a veil and with a flower bouquet in her hand and a man in a suit with a white bowtie and gloves. Around them there are wedding guests in festive clothes and some children. In the back row on the right there are musicians with musical instruments. One of them is playing a special “wedding” type of bagpipe. According to its owner, the photo depicts her grandmother’s wedding – Anna (...) and Jan (...)’s on 21. 02. 1930. They got married in the parish church in Zbąszyń. There was a music band playing at the wedding, including a folk musician Tomasz – the family’s neighbour – who played the bagpipe ; 21st February 1930, Zbąszyń ; 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:

ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; woman ; man ; newlyweds ; marriage ; wedding ; wedding party ; wedding customs ; family ; musician ; goat [type of bagpipe] ; clothing ; Zbąszyń, Nowy Tomyśl district (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 148-7

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