Tag: village traditions

Photos of the Day for August 30, 2018

Photo survey of Iuje District:  Hudzishki, Barutsishki, Zubavichy, Hudzjenjaty (Hudzinjenta), Lazduny, Bacheshniki, Lazduny 2. Фотавандроўка па Іўеўскім раёне: Гудзішкі, Баруцішкі, Зубавічы, Гудзеняты (Гудзінента), Лаздуны, Бачэшнікі, Лаздуны 2.   Hudzjenjaty (Hudzinjenta) 2018. Гудзеняты (Гудзінента) 2018 г.     Main street in the village. Галоўная вуліца.         Traditional window lintels and carved ornamentation. Традыцыйнае… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 30, 2018

Photo of the Day for January 13, 2018

Old-New Year’s Eve (shchadrets – шчадрэц), Tsjerablichy, January 13, 2017. Shchadrets is a pre-Christian rite absorbed into the Christian tradition in Belarus.  In villages of the central Pripet area groups of carolers carry a star-shaped pinwheel from house to house, and sing to bring good fortune; the family in each house offers food or money.… Continue reading Photo of the Day for January 13, 2018

Photos of the Day for September 8, 2017

Light in August.  Tsjerablichy 2017. Сьвятло ў жніўні.  Цераблічы 2017 г.     Granny Prosja (99) after digging potatoes in the garden plot. Бабуля Прося (99) пасьля збору бульбы з агароду.         A basket of potatoes straight from the garden patch. Бульба з агароду.  

Photo of the Day for June 3, 2017

Traditional backpack (noshka – ношка), Tsjerablichy 2014. It is ever rarer to see women carrying things in the traditional way by forming a large cloth into a backpack. Ношка, Цераблічы 2014 г.    

Photo of the Day for May 4, 2017

The bench (part XVI):  spring evening conversation.  Azdamichy 2014. What can seem more prosaic than the plain wooden bench in front of almost every village house in Belarus?  And yet the bench is the pivot of social life, the gathering place of generations on a summer’s eve, the village agora, the permanent observation post.  The… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 4, 2017

Photo of the Day for December 30, 2016

Portraits of Polesia:  Granny Prosja (1918) at work.  Tsjerablichy 2016. Vjerka and I stopped by Granny Prosja’s house to say hello but she had gone out in the falling snow to try to cover the pile of hay she uses in tending her chickens.  We found her hard at work in the barnyard. In the… Continue reading Photo of the Day for December 30, 2016