Women Torching - Nereju Research, County. Vrancea (1927)
Iosif Berman · 1927
The image captured by the camera lens brings before the viewer a sequence from the village world: an old woman and a girl (probably grandmother and niece) sitting on the prespa in front of the house. The girl has caught a torso fork with a woolen hanger on her, from which she pulls thread, twists it and spins it on a spindle (small tool swollen in the middle on which she depresses and twists the thread at the torso). Both of them are dressed in traditional folk harbor of celebration specific to the area: married and elderly women bear their heads covered; the old woman has on her head the so-called “erasure” (cloth eraser with sherds at her ends), a shirt wrinkled at her neck with ornamental fields at her neck, chests and sleeves, with floral motifs in evil on her sleeve down to her cuff, black fote. The girl has her head uncovered, a shirt wrinkled to her neck with ornamental fields at her neck, chest and sleeves, with floral motifs in the evils on her sleeve down, a trench with picks, girdle. Behind them are the windows of the wooden joinery house, with windows compartmentalized by wooden perches forming a cruciform motif.
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