Title:

[A Corpus Christi procession] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[ca 1930]

Description:

The photo depicts women and young girls in folk costumes walking in a procession and carrying a painting (or a cross / statue?) on a platform. In the background there is a whitewashed wooden building. According to its owner, the photo depicts the Corpus Christi procession ; ca 1930, district Opoczyński ; 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 ; Catholicism ; ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; spiritual culture ; Corpus Christi procession ; religiosity ; faith ; folk costume ; clothing ; Opoczno, łódzkie voivodeship-region (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 160-12

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