Title:

[A portrait of an old woman] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[ca 1931]

Description:

The photo shows an elderly, grey-haired woman. She is sitting on a chair with hands folded on her lap. She is wearing a black blouse with a white collar, a long skirt and a scarf flung on her shoulder. To her right there is a little, tall table covered with a white cloth and on it a vase of roses in bloom ; According to the owner of the photo, it shows his grandmother, Modesta (...), and was taken in the village of Drewnowo ; ca 1931, village Drewnowo Lipskie ; 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 ; portrait ; old age ; woman ; clothing ; Drewnowo Lipskie, Boguty-Pianki commune (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. 246-2

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