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Title

  • Hutsul Women.

Summary

  • This image is part of an album probably published in about 1920 that contains 20 photographs of scenes in Carpathian Ruthenia, a mountainous region, most of which was part of the Austria-Hungary before World War I, but which became part of the new Czechoslovak state in 1919. Today the largest portion of it forms Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine, with smaller parts in Slovakia and Poland. This image shows a group of Hutsul women with a child. The Hutsuls are an ethnic and cultural group who speak a dialect of Ukrainian, influenced by Polish. They have lived in Ruthenian Carpathia for centuries. The women wear a long linen blouse, drawn in around the neck by embroidered threads, over which are worn two aprons (zapasky), woven in narrow stripes of red wool with silver and gold thread details.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1920.

Headings

  • -  Ukraine
  • -  1920
  • -  Ethnic costume
  • -  Group portraits
  • -  Hutsuls
  • -  Portraits
  • -  Women

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph from an album : offset black and white printing.
  • -  Original resource at: Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine.
  • -  Content in Czech and Russian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Carpathian Ruthenia

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669102

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Hutsul Women. Ukraine, 1920. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669102/.

APA citation style:

(1920) Hutsul Women. Ukraine, 1920. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669102/.

MLA citation style:

Hutsul Women. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669102/>.