Title:

[Family standing next to a scutching tool] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1939-1945]

Description:

The photo depicts three women and a man next to a wooden machine - cierlica – used for scutching of flax. The women in the photo are crushing bunches of flax stalks with wooden planks. They are dressed in bright aprons and have headscarves on their heads. The man is standing slightly to the side; he is wearing a peaked cap. Behind him there are three people of different ages sitting on a fence. According to the photo's owner, it was taken during the II World War after deportation form Warsaw and depicts the entire family standing next to the flax scutching tool ; 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 ; social culture ; material culture ; farming ; cultivation ; flax (cultivated plant) ; woman ; work ; braking flax ; agricultural tools ; hackle ; social bonds ; clothing

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 194-9

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