Title:

[The harvesters] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1942]

Description:

The photo depicts three men, two women, a young girl, two small girls and a goat standing in a field. The men are holding farm tools - a scythe and tools for collecting reaped crops. The women are dressed in work aprons and have headscarves wrapped around their heads. The men are in work clothes and hats. In the foreground there is a goat. There are fields of corn in the background. According to the photo's owner, it depicts a harvest that took place in 1942 on a filed that belonged to a German in the village of Dziekanowice, to which the photo owner's grandparents had been re-settled form the village of Łubowo; their farm was taken over by the Germans. The goat which can be seen in the photo was the only feeder for the family of the photo’s owner's grandmother during the occupation, it particularly helped to feed grandmother and grandfather's daughters - one of them was her mother Krystyna ; 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) ; August 1942, Dziekanowice

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

2nd World War (1939-1945) ; Nazi occupation ; ethnography ; social culture ; material culture ; farming ; agriculture ; field works ; harvest ; harvest customs ; agricultural tools ; livestock ; goat ; clothing ; Dziekanowice, Łubowo commune (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 188-6

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