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[A family in front of a thatched building] [An iconographic document]
Date issued/created: Description:The photo depicts a robust elderly man with moustache who is sitting in a chair in front of a hut with a small boy on his knee. Standing next to him is another small boy who is holding his hand on the man's knee. On the right, next to the man, there is a standing woman who is visibly pregnant. The photo was taken in front of a thatched timber cottage. According to the photo's owner, it was taken in 1938 and depicts her father Marian (the boy first from the left), grandfather Michał with her father's brother - Jan (the boy on the man's lap); standing next to them is grandmother Katarzyna. Behind them there is the cottage who belong to the photo owner's great grandparents, where his father also grew up ; 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: Subject and Keywords:ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; woman ; man ; child ; family ; family bonds ; clothing ; rural dwelling architecture ; wooden architecture ; thatched roof
Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Format: Source: Rights:Rights Reserved - Restricted Access
Terms of use: 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
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