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100 years – 100 artefacts

22.07.2022
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In the traditional village from the beginning of the 20th century, many crafts were practised that satisfied the different needs of the local communities, such as the case of whitewashing from Baru, Hunedoara county, where “whole families were working to collect and break the limestone from Măgura, and they would burn it with wood in the kilns, thus obtaining a high quality whitewash” (Ioachim
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MURGOCI COLLECTION

21.07.2022
Exhibitions
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Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci Ethnograpic Collection     On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci (July 20, 1872 - March 5, 1925), geologist, mineralogist and pedologist, prominent personality of the Romanian science and culture, we present some representative data and images from the Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci Ethnographic Collection, which is part of the
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100 years – 100 artefacts

20.07.2022
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In the patrimony of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, there is a series of garment pieces from the Jiu Valley area, including the woman’s traditional shirt proposed as a week artefact, with inventory no. 397, purchased in 1923. The shirt is wrinkled around the neck, with a side gusset extended along the sleeve and a triangular pave positioned at the back, fastened with polychrome keys.
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100 years – 100 artefacts

20.07.2022
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The negative on glass was made by Romulus Vuia, in 1923, in Hunedoara county and it shows the image of a peasant family, dressed up in folk costume specific to Jiu Valley, sitting on a wooden bench. The boy has cut hair, covered with a dark felt hat, with brims hanging down and decorated with flowers. The boy’s long shirt with “barburi” (gussets inserted in the middle of the chest and back) is
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MET 100.

12.07.2022
Events
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Anniversary photographic exhibition of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography centenary. 1922-2022   The exhibition brings to the public relevant aspects of the activity of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (M.E.T.), a museum that celebrates 100 years of existence this year and which operates today under the authority of Cluj County Council. The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography set the
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100 years – 100 artefacts

01.07.2022
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The cross near the road   In the villages all over the country, there is a very large number of crosses and roadside crosses, and this fact indicates their ancient history on the Romanian territory and it proves the honoring always given by peasants to the main Christian sign, the cross. Roadside crosses are usually located at crossroads, borders, in the crop field, near wells. The cross near
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100 years – 100 artefacts

17.06.2022
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One of the most common fishing weapons was the tunnel-net (“vârșa”) made of twigs. Not missing in the past from the inventory of households located near waters, it evolved from a simple trellis, by adding a mouth woven also in the shape of a funnel to the wider conical basket. In some cases, the funnel-shaped mouth was made by bending the twigs, at the front, wider part, around a semicircular
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100 years – 100 artefacts

17.06.2022
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Fishing in the traditional village in many areas was a secondary occupation, practiced mainly in spring, summer and autumn, being a way in which people supplemented their food resources and income. Traditional fishing was initially practiced by hand, but the fishing weapons and methods used in various areas were imposed by season, depth and flow of waters. Fishing weapons weren’t missing from the
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100 years – 100 artefacts

10.06.2022
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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 young woman dressed up in a folk costume specific to Jiu Valley. The young woman has her hair combed on the middle, braided in two thick tails, curled under her ears, enriched with two artificial wool tails (“pletari”), over which sits “tindeu” - a long white towel,
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100 years – 100 artefacts

10.06.2022
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    The old traditional folk costume emphasized the head caparison. In the Bran area, this was especially notable by long towels, with beautiful decorations, made of thin cloth, especially sleave and metal thread. This piece gave the local costume an additional distinction with social connotations. “Marama” (or towel), a distinctive sign of the married woman, was worn over the cloth caul, with
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