Title:

[The newlyweds and wedding guests] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1940]

Description:

The photo depicts a large group of people in festive clothes, standing in a farm yard. The young couple is standing in the middle of the first row - the woman in a dark dress is clad with a long white scarf (veil?); she is holding a bunch of flowers in her hands. The man is in a dark suit trimmed with a wedding rosette. There are wedding guests of different ages next to them and behind them. At the back of the photo there is the following inscription: "The wedding of Matylda (...) and Franciszek (...). The photo was taken in 1940 in Mała Wieś..." ; 1940, Mała Wieś, voiv. zielonogórskie ; 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 ; social culture ; spritual culture ; wedding ; newlyweds ; wedding customs ; wedding rites ; marriage ; family ; clothing ; Mała Wieś, lubuskie voivodeship (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 164-6

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