Title:

[A priest and three girls in folk costumes] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1940]

Description:

The photo shows three teenage girls in folk costumes standing on either side of a priest in a cassock. The photo was taken outside against a background of foliage. The girls are wearing, patterned skirts, decorative, little aprons, embroidered jerkins, tied back headscarves and bead necklaces ; According to the owner of the photo, it was taken in 1940 and shows his two aunts with a friend of theirs and the parish-priest. According to the donor, these are the costumes in which this feast was celebrated in his region ; 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 ; parish-priest ; religious rites ; folk tradition ; folk religiosity ; folk costume ; clothing

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 255-2

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