Among the most important moments marking man’s life, the ones connected with death have kept, in the traditional society, old pre-Christian beliefs and practices, completed by newer ones, imposed by the church. Death is perceived as a passage to the other world, and this passage was accompanied by a series of rituals, such as the firtree ritual.
In some villages in Hațeg country, the firtree
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The religious seal (“pristolnic”), known by several names - prescurar, prescurnicer, pistornic, pecetar - is a cult object, usually made of wood (but it can also be made of stone or clay) used to imprint prosphora.
“Pristolnic”, a small handmade object, most often carved in the shape of a cross (simple or with different stylizations), has a quadrilateral base on which are inscribed the sacred
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The negative on glass was made by Romulus Vuia, in 1923, in Uricani village, Hunedoara county and it presents the image of two women, one of them is on horseback, and the other one holds the bridle. The horse has three rows of woolen knapsacks, with checks and horizontal stripes, attached to the wooden saddle (“tarniță”). Women are wearing traditional folk costumes specific to the Jiu Valley area
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Registered with inventory no. 388 in the records of the Transylvania Museum of Ethnography, the head dress (“broboada”) chosen for this week’s artifact is a piece of traditional folk costume from the Jiu Valley area, worn by women as a piece for covering the head.
The piece is made of cotton, decorated on both ends and finished with lace (cipcă). The lace is handmade, from black cotton and it’s
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Registered with no. 379 in the collections of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, the bead cincture from Uricani presented as the artefact of the week is an ornament worn by women from the Jiu Valley area, specific to the period between the 19th – 20th centuries. The local name is “lătițar” and it is made of glass beads usually bought from country fairs that coincided with villatic parties
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The negative on glass was made by Romulus Vuia, in 1923, in Uricani village, Hunedoara county and it presents the image of a woman dressed up in a folk costume specific to Jiu Valley, photographed in front of a wooden construction. The woman has her hair combed with a path on the middle, braided in two thick tails, wrapped under her ears, enriched with two artificial woolen tails (“pletari”), on
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The negative was made by Romulus Vuia in 1923, at the entrance in a village in Hunedoara county. In many villages, there were village fences and entrance gates, made of woven twigs or wooden strips / boards, being a way to defend the cultivated border, both against damages caused by wild animals and damages caused, intentionally or by chance, by domestic animals (cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, etc
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Until we had a massive spread of metal and synthetic mass-produced products, in the traditional folk inventory of utensils, a well-defined role - in addition to the wooden, stone, iron or clay objects - was also played by objects made of horn.
As beef horn was available to all plowmen and herdsmen, the shaping was easier and the applicability more varied, and in what concerned the manufacturing
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The negative on glass was made by Romulus Vuia in 1923, in a potter’s workshop from the ceramic centre Baru Mare or Baru Mic, Hunedoara county.
Baru Mare early became the main center of household pottery for the villages in the Jiu Valley, as well as for those in Hațeg country, hence the name “Bar pots”. At the end of the 19th century, between 25-30 potters were active in Baru Mare and Baru Mic
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The plate with inventory no. 306 was inscribed in the patrimony of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography in 1923. The artefacts originates from Cerbăl village, Hunedoara county and it probably entered the museum patrimony following a research campaign initiated by professor Romulus Vuia, the museum founder. The ceramic plates were too often used in the peasant households from the first half of
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