Death : Digging the grave (for the child whose father married into his wife's household). Fire. Graves are never dug without fire. Water to moisten clay with which they stick together the gravestones

Item Information

Title:
Death : Digging the grave (for the child whose father married into his wife's household). Fire. Graves are never dug without fire. Water to moisten clay with which they stick together the gravestones
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:
Burial--Macedonia--Photographs
Cemeteries--Macedonia--Photographs
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Macedonia--Photographs
Gravediggers--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-b54-i203
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Bitovo (Macedonia)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums599-b54-i203