Village:
Skopje
Date:
1978 May-June
Bit Pazar porters with tricycles for transporting goods Minaret of mosque in background.
Village: Skopje
Date: 1978 May-June
Vegetable market -- Muslim man Orthodox woman. She appears to be selling herbs -- perhaps tea.
Village:
Skopje
Date: 1978 May-June
New houses in Carsija - shops built in old style Wall marks off heavily trafficed street.
Village:
Skopje
Date: 1978 May-June
Daut Pashin Amam -- now national art gallery and on left new buildingof National Theater, opera and philharmonic.
Village:
Skopje
Date: 1978 May-June
Veles.
Village:
Veles
Date: 1978 May-June
ell tower seen from bridge over Vardar in Veles.
Village:
Veles
Date: 1978 May-June
View of houses along Vardar in Veles.
Village:
Veles
Date: 1978 May-June
Sinadinovski meeting villagers in Volce.
Village:
Volce
Date: 1978 June
A view within village showing outside wooden stairs.
Village:
Volce
Date: 1978 June
Beehives, recently made and drying in Kos, storage palce for corn.
Village:
Volce
Date: 1978 June
Younger woman preparing vegetable food for pigs.
Village:
Volce
Date: 1978 June
School children in Volce -- no longer (2003) children in village and so school closed.
Village:
Volce
Date: 1978 June
Woman preparing flat bread, flowers in vase on windowsill.
Village:
Volce
Date: 1978 June
Women of varying ages on street -- no vestiges of folk costume as was seen in 1954 photos.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Closeup of women in work clothes with aprons all made of store bought materials, no evidence of home made woolen garments -- it was, of course, a warm spring day but different than elaborate costumes women wore a generation earlier as seen in jmh photos.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
View of older type house with thatch roof, no cminey, smoke escapes through opening in rafters (
badja). Area around village appears to be cultivated cereals are gound in valleys..
Village:
Volce
Date: 1978 June
View of older house with outside stairway and wood pile under upper enclosed balcony.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Kottle suspended over open fire, items in back for baking bread (
crepna, ceramic plate, versnik (metal cover) of the kind depicted in 1954 photos in Skopje being sold at tin smith's.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Pantry -- mainly purchased items for cooking and cleaning? There is a crockery jar below but also many plastic buckets and an enamel wash basin.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Wooden stool and a wooden container for storing wheat..
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Household loom.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Family p;hotos on wall of room for guests in gostinska soba, next to bed, older couple, woman in folk costume which was once worn in area.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Another view inside home, glass fronted storage place for glass ware (Vitrina) and Sifoner (for storage of clothing), table with what appears to be oilcloth on right, ornamental vase on embroidered cloth at top of storage closet.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Old woman
Baba next to old storge table for bread,also place where dough was mixed -- this historic item which was hand made probably in village is in contrast to recently purchased bedroom and front room furniture in previous photo.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Making the flat bread in kitchen which also serves as winter bedroom.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Part of process of baking bread.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Cleaning basin? Possibly using shes from fire?.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Another view of making bread, apparently two beds in kitchen, on left and on right as seen from previous pcitures.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Appears to be more modern but still modest structure in Volce.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Modern car with German liscense plates evidently driven to his native village by migrant worker. Must have been a difficult trip as our jeep had a bit of trouble making the grade..
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Another car, also of a migrant worker (pecalbar) with a German plate, obviously a ercedes which also survived the rough drive to the villge now prked amiodst historic outbuildings for livestock consturcted with traditional thatch. Village fields can be seen behind separated by trees marking boundaries of fields used for making hay. In Obrebski's time - early 1930s they raised wheat.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Mercedes brought to village by pecalbar, would appear to be for prestige reasons.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Fields surrounding Volce.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Another view of fields surounding Volce with outbuildings in foreground.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Village church -- building in some disrepair -- priest probably comes on visits.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Sinadinovski with village and driver? Church in background.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Mother and daughter, going to chop wood No photos of mature men yet in these photos, those who would drive the cars and work in Germany.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Kerosene lamps (2) sita for sifting flour, string of onions.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Older houses in village.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Village has electricity put in a few years before view in center of village.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Closeup of woman with horse with load of branches for animal feed.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Ralo wooden plow - this older village does have traditional woolen dress and the log and mud plaster construction of an older building is evident from the decaying one behind him.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Sinadinovski and older man in village house having been served
coffee or slatko, also perhaps lunch..
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Bedroom with bed, wool blanket and curtain on window.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
View of outbuilding under construction
in traditional style.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Household courtyard, cleanly swept, clothes drying on right surrounded by outbuilding for storage and for animals.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
An older house, laundry drying, tile roof,
with TV antenna, first observed in village, and cultivated plants on right, lso chimney with vent, probably from wood stove.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Women at fence , shocks of beans.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Washing clothese in courtyard in metal basin, kettle of water warming over fire, baba is also busy in corner.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Closeup of woman washing clothes in courtyard with her small daughter assisting.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Closeup of wool blanket and clothes drying on balcony Some pots of flowers(?) Aesthetic element (?).
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June
Village church another view.
Village: Volce
Date: 1978 June