Title:

[After digging potatoes] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1933]

Description:

The photo depicts a group of people gathered around a cart drawn by two horses and loaded with potatoes. Most of them are women dressed in jumpers and kerchief holding hoes in their hands. A man in a fur hat is sitting on the coachman’s box; a man in a hat is standing next to the horse. The photo was taken in a yard, in front of a thatched cottage. According to its owner, the photo depicts people after the digging of potatoes in Podgaj. There is an inscription at the back of the photo: “After the digging of potatoes (...) in Podgaj in 1933” ; 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 ; farming ; agriculture ; work ; potatoes harvesting ; agricultural tools ; hoe ; transport ; cart ; animal ; horse ; clothing ; Podgaj (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 160-4

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