Easter sticks - Pomlazka - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73505 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 160.00 SALICACEAE Salix sp | Entry Book Number | 31.1995.2 | |
| Artefact Name | Easter sticks - Pomlazka | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Czechoslovakia | TDWG Region | Czechoslovakia | ||
| Parts Held | Easter sticks - Pomlazka | Geography Description | Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Europe, Middle Europe | ||
| Uses | Easter sticks - PomlazkaUse: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Stirton CH | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/04/1995 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Pomlazkas are made fresh every year from Salix. There are many intricate weaves ranging from 2-9 Salix strips. The handles show great variability and each pomlazka is topped with a variety of ornamentation depending on the region and whether it is made, for home use or for sale to others. Children have an easter game whereby young boys visit friends and locals (villagers) and ask to see young girls. They ask them for easter eggs. If the girl likes the boy, she gives him a colourful or ornamented egg, (often with intricate patterns, colours with strong regional bias). If she does not, she gives him a plain coloured egg. The boy is then entitled to symbolically whip her with his pomlazka for the plain egg. There is a rich easter heritage in the Czech, Republic of which Pomlazka is a small element. CH Stirton. 1. Stick from Krkonose Mountains. 8 children selling them by the roadside (not a tourist item). 2. Jicin, N. Bohemia. Sold by an old woman in the Old Town Square, made by local village childr, en. | ||||