Folk Weddings & Whiskers

Folk Art in Pictures
Karel Sourek
Spring Books
London
c.1960

An extraordinary book, with essay by Karel Sourek, a painter who travelled the Czechoslovak Republic documenting these artefacts in museums, private collections, crossroads and cottages. A favourite section on folk beehives will be featured in the next post.



Caption: 'Turon'–head of carnival billy-goat from carnival precession in the Slovak village of Lutisa. 19th century. (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Man with whiskers–effigy from rustic wedding festivities at Lutise, Slovakia. 19th century. (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Combined cocks motive–decoration of jug handle from Priechod, Slovakia. Wood, 20th century. Ethnographic Museum, Prague.)



Caption: Wedding candlesticks from Slovakia–wood carving combined with decorated tree. Slovakia, 19th century (Slovak National Museum, Martin.)



Caption: Top of stove-head with Hungarian moustache.