Carpathian Romani Settlement

The sector is located on the outskirts of the village, in its original location. The buildings are makeshift and rudimentary in terms of equipment; they are chaotically laid out in a typical Romani fashion. The two residential buildings were relocated from Maszkowice, while the blacksmith’s shop, which came from Czarna Góra in the Spisz region, was reconstructed. The interior of a Romani house is extremely modest; the walls are lined with clay and whitewashed, the ceiling is covered with paper tow, and the walls are decorated with postcards and newspaper cuttings. The furnishings in the hut include an iron bed with a mattress and blankets or an old duvet, a clothes sheet hung on a pole which was also used as a cradle, and a rudimentary shelf and plank bench. In line with the Romani custom, the utensils used for cooking and eating were always kept unmistakeably  separate from those for washing oneself and one’s clothing. Romani people in the Subcarpathian region had long engaged in blacksmithing, and the word ‘blacksmith’ was often synonymous with a Romani person. They mainly made small agricultural tools. A Romani smithy is more modestly equipped than peasant smithies, with a primitive hearth made of planks, filled with earth and covered with stone, a heart-shaped bellows, an anvil on a log, and the necessary blacksmith’s tools. There is also a portable anvil and an archaic portable bellows made from rabbit skins.


 
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