Title:

[Women digging potatoes] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1927]

Description:

The photo depicts a group of women standing with hoes in a filed. They are wearing aprons and kerchief on their heads. On the back of the photo there is the inscription: “Year 1927, September. My Mother (fourth from the left) Zofia (…). Digging of potatoes with hoes in the biggest farm in the village that belonged to Tomasz (…). Photographer unknown, the village of Pasierby” ; September 1927, Pasierby, district gostyński, voiv. Wielkopolskie ; 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 ; material culture ; social culture ; agriculture ; woman ; field works ; digging potatoes ; agricultural tools ; hoe ; clothing ; Pasierby, Pępowo commune (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 153-3

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