Title:

[A memento from the First Communion] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1942]

Description:

The photo depicts two women sitting in chairs with a small boy between. There are also two girls in white dresses - the one on the left in a short dress, the one on the right - in a long First Communion dress - and a young woman and a small boy in the back row. The girl celebrating her First Communion is holding a souvenir from the First Communion in her hands. According to the photo's owner, it depicts her mother, grandmother and aunt (mother's sister), brothers and sister, who had her First Communion ; 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:

Holy Communion ; ethnography ; material culture ; social culture ; family ; woman ; child ; siblings ; family celebration ; religiosity ; religious rites ; family bonds ; clothing

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 187-2

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