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Pitcher
In the Gypsy settlement in the Sądecki Ethnographic Park, in one of the khers (houses), a water jug was placed on a small wooden stool next to the stove "for a moment". An enamelled vessel with a green handle is covered with a cloth that was used to wipe away accidentally spilled drops. Such a jug had many uses, just like modern jugs and pots from our homes, but among the Roma, the use of these vessels was conditioned by the moral code.
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Carriage gloves
This type of gloves existed throughout the highland region. On frosty winter days, men wore them to work in the forest (carrying wood), when going to the market, or during winter work on the farm. Hence their name - "carrier's", due to the fact that they were most often worn by carters - coachmen.
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Portrait study (Ludmiła Rozwadowska II)
Bolesław Barbacki painted Ludmiła Rozwadowska twice. Both canvases were created in 1925, and the presented painting is the second version of her portrait. It shows the model in a rather sensual shot, sitting on a red sofa with a strongly exposed cleavage and a naked left arm. The Barbacki family donated this portrait to the museum collection in 1948.
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A bottle with the composition of "The Passion of the Lord" inside
The work came to the Museum's collection in 1948 as a gift from a resident of Limanowa. It was probably made in the interwar period. The bottle is made of colorless, thick glass of the old type, cuboidal, height 25 cm, width of the sides: 11 cm and 7.5 cm. Wooden cork, turned, height 5.5 cm. The plug is designed in such a way that it is impossible to remove it. It has a long transverse lock inside the bottle. The composition shows a staging of the Golgotha hill at the moment of the death of Jesus.
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Sheepskin coat
Sheepskin coat, white lined; acquired by the Pieniny Museum in 1982 from one of the last Ruthenians from Szlachtowa. Sheepskin coat tails fastened with 4 leather buttons and loops. The main decoration is made of red morocco (fine crimson goat skin).
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Figure "Christ on a donkey"
Placed on a four-wheeled cart, the sculpture of Christ on a donkey is a faithful copy of the figure from the first half of the 19th century. 16th century, from the Poor Clares monastery in Stary Sącz. It is made of wood-like mass, resistant to weather conditions, perfect for objects used and stored in changing climatic conditions. The sculpture was created to recreate the traditional Palm Sunday procession in the Sądecki Ethnographic Park, commemorating Christ's entry into Jerusalem. It shows Jesus dressed in a red robe, sitting astride a donkey, raising his right hand in a gesture of blessing, and originally holding a rein or a palm tree with his left hand.
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Portrait of Józef Piłsudski
The portrait is painted in an unusual way, in monochromatic shades of brown and depicts Marshal Józef Piłsudski dressed in uniform with decorations pinned on him: a cross Virtuti Militari, the Officers' Badge of the Rifle Associations "Umbrella" and the French Order National Legion of Honor. There is a signature in the lower left corner: A. Suchanek / 1921.
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Photoceramics - portrait of a woman
Photoceramics, i.e. a photo taken on a porcelain tile, shows a young woman in a sitting position, with her face turned towards the viewer. Blond hair in a Victorian hairstyle: a high bun, surrounded by a braid, short bangs above the forehead. Long gold earrings in her ears, and a dark green velvet with a gold pin around her neck. A woman wearing a light blue dress with a ruffles, a deep neckline with a lace and short sleeves finished with white lace.
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Devotional picture "Souvenir from Kobylanka"
In a small pauper's cottage in the foothill village of Lipnica Wielka, designed as a village herbalist's house, one notices a row of holy paintings above the window and on the wall opposite the entrance. On the right side, slightly to the side, there is a small, oval picture. If you come closer, you can see that it is a black and white representation of a baroque altar with the image of the Crucifixion. At the bottom there is a rather difficult to read signature (original spelling): "A real appearance of Jesus / with the Altar in Kobyla [nce]". This small representation in a glass oval is therefore associated with the Kobyl sanctuary - perhaps it is a souvenir of a pilgrimage to this place of worship.
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Sculpture "Nicholas Copernicus"
Author: Kunegunda Jeżowska, Muszyna – Złockie / 1908-1991/, performed in 1973 The great astronomer is depicted in a seated position, in clerical robes, holding a symbolic earth globe in his hands. The work was created for the national competition entitled "Nicolaus Copernicus in folk art", which was organized in 1973 by the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the scientist's birth. The sculpture came to the District Museum in Nowy Sącz in 1973.
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Crown Ort of John II Casimir
The crown order of John II Casimir is one of 108 coins that fortunately survived World War II and comes from the pre-war numismatic collection of the Sądecka Land Museum. The history of the presented coin is related to the Swedish Deluge.
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A painting on a stone by Jacek Malczewski
The collection of the Nowy Sącz Museum includes an unusual work by the famous Polish symbolist painter and outstanding portraitist Jacek Malczewski. This interesting exhibit is small in size and was made on an unusual base, an obliquely cut block of stone.
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Triple self-portrait
"Triple Self-Portrait" is one of Nikifor's most famous works and is one of the few large-format paintings that the artist painted in the 1920s. It is probably the painter's largest surviving painting.
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Picture painted on glass "Bobbers on the Dunajec"
Rafting season is in full swing. The Dunajec River is as crowded as "Zakopiance", among the highlander boats - kayaks, rafting pontoons and SUP boards. It's not like it used to be, when you could only see colorful rafters on the fast-flowing Dunajec River. For over 200 years, rafting down the Dunajec River has been the biggest attraction of the Pieniny Mountains.
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A bourgeois coif
A beautiful, decorative bourgeois bonnet was donated to the Museum in 1945. It was made in the first half of the 19th century. 19th century using 18th-century materials: silk brocade on top of a bonnet with a flower motif and gold bobbin lace with a palmette and flower pattern. The bonnet was a headgear for married women.
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The painting "At the hundred-year-old spring in Szczawnica"
A small watercolor by Antoni Kozakiewicz (1841-1929) depicting two women - highlanders, in traditional costumes: one in a kanafaska skirt and a light corset, the other in a dark navy blue skirt and a green corset. Both with scarves on their heads, both barefoot... They are standing with glasses by a rocky slope, on the bank of the Dunajec River.
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Viennese chair
Among the furniture in the apartment of MP Myjak from Zagorzyn, a wooden chair from the Viennese company Jacob & Josef Kohn deserves attention. The seat and backrest of the furniture are decorated with an embossed grotesque ornament, consisting of a centrally placed satyr's face and plant tendrils entwining it. The chair has turned, round legs and two decorative balusters serving as the sides of the backrest. There is a paper tag glued to the bottom of the furniture with the marking "Jacob&JosefKohn", which was used from the 1860s to 19
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Pieniny women's corset
Pieniny corset typical of highlander women from Szczawnica. Made of black velvet. The armholes, neckline and shoulder straps are trimmed with a yellow crepe ribbon. Corset fastened with the so-called "horses", to which a red ribbon is attached and tied.
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Optical paper fold
The collection of the Museum includes an optical compilation made around 1835 in Germany. After unfolding, it has the shape of a two-level accordion with five colored cut out pictures placed in each level, creating a three-dimensional effect.
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Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Kotlarski's garrison cap
Stefan Kotlarski's rogatywka comes from the times when he was the commander of the 31st Regiment of Kaniowski Riflemen in Łódź (1928-1931), sweat. this is also evidenced by the manufacturer's logo: "Korona" Piotrkowska 45 Łódź located inside on a leather piece of material, the so-called sweat.
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Wooden washing machine
In the hall of a wealthy highlander's house from Zagorzyn in the Sądecki Ethnographic Park, looking at the center of the spores of a wooden device. It consists of an octagonal container made of vertical boards joined with metal hoops, supported on four wooden, slightly bent legs. Inside there is a corrugated wooden stand with two handles for removal, supported by a metal bar.
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Photo album - a souvenir from Szczawnica
A commemorative album from Szczawnica and Pieniny. Made in the interwar period by the photo studio FOTO-TATRY, operating at that time in Szczawnica.
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Medal with the image of Nicolaus Copernicus
2023 marks the 550th anniversary of the birth and the 480th anniversary of the death of the outstanding astronomer, doctor, mathematician, creator of the heliocentric model of the Solar System, Nicolaus Copernicus. This is a great opportunity to present a zinc medal commemorating him.
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Cabbage barrel
In the corner of the hall of the cottage from Gostwica in the Sądecki Ethnographic Park, there is a barrel of small size. Its height is almost 1 meter, while the upper diameter is 1.2 meters! Unfortunately, we will disappoint all listeners during relaxing baths. In the context of the reality of the 19th-century countryside, it follows that this is the largest barrel, and therefore a larger amount of water, which is a real waste! Can you imagine how much an analysis with water carriers for a nearby well or efficient stream would have to be calculated to count such a vessel? The described exhibit had a lot of practical use, especially for pickling cabbage.
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Cross of the Order of the White Eagle
Cross of the Order of the White Eagle according to the pattern from 1921. In terms of precedence, the first Polish civil and military decoration, established by King August II the Strong at the Tykocin Castle on November 1, 1705. O. O. B. Cross of the Maltese type by. model from 1921, designed by Mieczysław Kotarbiński (January 3, 1890 – May 27, 1943), a painter, graphic artist, author of many decorations.
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Jerzy Nowosielski "Church"
The collection of the District Museum in Nowy Sącz includes a charming work by Jerzy Nowosielski entitled "Orthodox", purchased in 1982. The work shows a tripartite block of a wooden temple seen from the side, consisting of a high tower above the vestibule.
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