In the traditional Transylvanian village, boys’ groups, children and masked men were sending their good wishes to the community for the year to come, each group having a distinct role. Children were responsible with the singing of carols, on Christmas Eve, who were making abundance wishes in every house, receiving nuts, apples and bread wreaths in return. The church intervened in this archaic
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The artefact of November is măngălău. Also called in certain areas mangalău, tăvălug, maglă, scândură, zolitor, mai de pânză etc., it is made of wood, and in fact it is a long and rectangular board, with a wavy or smooth surface, on which thick cloth laundry, wrapped around a prop, is being rubbed or smoothed. Once the flat iron became widespread in the village world too, the functionality of
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Our annual publication has appeared for the first time in 1958. The first steps were made in 1956, when the museum specialists wrote a note to the Ministry of Resort in order to publish a Guide and a volume related tot the collections of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, on the occasion of 35 years since 1922 (the year when the museum was founded), anniversary that took place in 1957. The
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CONTENT
MATERIAL CULTURE
Emanuela Traiana BUIA House of Spermezeu .......................................................................................................................................................... 9
Emilia JURJIU Reconstruction of a belt woven in the permanent exhibition of the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania
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Iharka SZÜCS-CSILLIK
Institutul Astronomic, Cluj-Napoca
Zoia MAXIM
Cluj-Napoca
We know that in ancient times, people were sky watchers, made observations, drew conclusions, and their vision of Universe reflected the sky (macrocosm) into the ground (microcosm) and vice versa. Investigating deeply some symbols and signs from the Neolithic period, we find that the knowledge about the sky
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Gheorghe LAZAROVICI, Cluj-Napoca
Cornelia-Magda LAZAROVICI
Institutul de Arheologie, Iaşi
Constantin APARASCHIVEI
Muzeul Bucovinei, Suceava
We intend to present and analyze some of our recent scientific pursuits related with ethnoreligion, ethnoarchaeology and especially connected with the mountain and cultic occurences. Our contribution is thematically, not chronologically ordered. The
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Laura TROȘAN
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
The workpiece approached in this paper is part of the category of port textiles (head adornment), with the purpose of emphasizing the social and economic status, but it also has a decorative role. The bonnet comes from the Odorheiul Secuiesc area and can be dated between 1880-1910. When the bonnet first entered the restoration laboratory it was
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Mioara-Mihaela SÎNTIUAN
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
The paper describes the state of conservation of an oil painted icon on wooden support, with the theme “Mother of God of Sorrows”, from the collection of the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, presenting the degradations forms, and also describes the restoration stages,Troșan characterized by specific techniques and
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Ioan TOȘA
Cluj-Napoca
The author presents several archive documents regarding the relations between the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography and the Kings of Romania, providing useful information for knowing the Museum’s history. The first document presented is Decision 7487 of December 21, 1922, signed by Prince Carol; this Decision, by appointing Professor Romulus Vuia as the institution’s
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Silvia SUCIU
Cluj-Napoca
Conçu comme une continuation de l’essaye „L’affaire de l’Art. Le Marché d’Art aux Pays Bas, au XVIIe siècle” (AMET 2018), cette étude suit la création artistique et le destinataire de l’œuvre d’art en France, aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.
À la Cour du Roy Soleil, la possession d’un capital culturel (objets de luxe, tableaux, bijoux, calèches) était un moyen de
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