The Transylvanian
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100 years – 100 artefacts

18.11.2022
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Writing on various supports and in appropriate techniques is a constant of the elite culture, starting from antiquity. With the beginning of the 18th century, short inscriptions, namely dating, also appear on the artifacts of different genres belonging to the working classes in the Transylvanian rural and urban environment. Made on different materials, in various techniques, such inscriptions
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100 years – 100 artefacts

18.11.2022
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The ceramic pots used to prepare, store, transport and consume food, played an important role in people’s daily lives. In their production process, burning is an essential stage, during which, through fire, the clay changes its chemical and physical properties, becoming a more durable material. Burning represents the use of fire in a special kiln, built to obtain temperatures necessary to change
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100 years – 100 artefacts

11.11.2022
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The hood, made of thick home-woven woolen cloth, is a utilitarian garment common to shepherd groups around the globe, with many variations in cut and decoration. The use of this textile object can be dated in the Carpathian area at least from antiquity, as highlighted by the representations on Trajan’s Column. This fact also fascinated the ethnographer Romulus Vuia, who captured in his research
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100 years – 100 artefacts

11.11.2022
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Just like nowadays, in the traditional family, the woman had an essential role. We find her in the position of wife, mother, but also housewife, involved in all household and family activities. However, giving birth, raising, educating and protecting children are the most valuable attributes of a woman. The image of the woman in the traditional society who carried her child on her back, in a
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100 years – 100 artefacts

04.11.2022
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The object in the image is a key that operated a locking mechanism located inside the door. An archaic, simple and ingenious system, executed exclusively from wood by carpenters. This way of securing a door ends up being replaced almost entirely, starting from the 19th century, with a safer, more complex closing system, only the old wooden churches (some from the beginning of the 17th century)
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100 years – 100 artefacts

04.11.2022
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In the traditional village, there was a strong connection between the community and the church. All holidays, important moments in human life (birth, marriage and death), as well as social life had the church at its center. Here was the judgment place of the village community where the community members met on holidays, here was the place where babies were baptized, where young people were
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100 years – 100 artefacts

21.10.2022
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“Ceapsa” is a part of the headdress worn by married women in some areas of Transylvania and Banat. It can also be described as a bonnet with fine, geometric, woven and stitched embroidery. Depending on the area from which it comes, it presents a great morphological variety, which places this piece of garment in several areal variants with distinctive features. “Ceapsa” appears as an element that
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100 years – 100 artefacts

21.10.2022
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Denis Galloway - English engineer, naval officer and painter, one of Romulus Vuia’s collaborators, since 1926 began photographing various aspects of the life of the communities in Hunedoara’s Pădureni, thus contributing to enriching the collection of negatives of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography. The refinement, the originality of the decorative motifs and the mastery of the sewing
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100 years – 100 artefacts

14.10.2022
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Autumn is the time when corn is also harvested, a nutritious food that entered the traditional diet only in the 18th century. Although sensitive to climatic conditions, and its cultivation requires more periodic maintenance works, corn has expanded at the expense of other cereals, adapting even to higher areas, and being cultivated on sunny slopes. After harvesting, corn was transported home,
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100 years – 100 artefacts

14.10.2022
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Corn-flailing basket   Among the cereals often used in the traditional peasant kitchen were, besides wheat, also millet, oats, and corn. Even though it entered the Romanian agriculture later, corn quickly gained a leading place among the cereals used in the household, both in peasants’ and animals’ food. Keeping it in optimal conditions was an important concern for Romanian peasants, as there
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