Death : Six-month zaduzhbina (mourning ceremony) for a son: food at the grave. Mother kneeling and grieving. The women beside her says 'Here, here, as long as you live, don't call him'

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Title:
Death : Six-month zaduzhbina (mourning ceremony) for a son: food at the grave. Mother kneeling and grieving. The women beside her says 'Here, here, as long as you live, don't call him'
Description:
From a series of ethnographic photographs taken in Macedonian villages in 1932-1933.
Photographer:
Obrebski, Joseph, 1905-1967
Date:
[ca. 1932]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Glass plate negatives
Black-and-white photographs
Ethnography
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Joseph Obrebski Papers
Series:
Series 9a. Macedonia Photographs
Subjects:
Bereavement--Macedonia--Photographs
Cemeteries--Macedonia--Photographs
Death--Religious aspects--Macedonia--Photographs
Fasts and feasts--Macedonia--Photographs
Rites and ceremonies--Macedonia--Photographs
Extent:
1 photograph ; 5 x 9 cm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums599-b57-i452
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Volche (Macedonia)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums599-b57-i452