A Herman Ottó Múzeum évkönyve 50. (2011)

NÉPRAJZ - BODNÁR Mónika: Felföldi gyolcsosok és leszármazottaik térségünkben. Adatok a Putnokon letelepedett gyolcsosok történetéhez és a Gömöri Múzeum textilgyűjteményéhez

420 Bodnár Mónika LINEN MERCHANTS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS IN OUR REGION Data to the history of the settled linen merchants in Putnok and the textile collection of Gömör Museum Keywords: Árva (Orava), Putnok, travelling trade, linen trade, textile The exchanging of goods by the agency of chapmen is a favourite subject of the ethnography and Gyula Viga who is honoured by this volume. This study gives more information about the ethnography of the so-called "gyolcsos tótok" (approx. linen merchants of Slovakian nation), who came from Árva County, Upper Hungary. Data partly derived from the examples of the Sznagyik family from Miskolc and the Matkulcsik family from Putnok. Compared with the history of the families many parallels can be seen. The first generation was amphibious in the last decades of the 19

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h century. Some men of the family looked after the depots and stores in Hungary, they brought the textile goods made of cambric from home and marketed with them. In the meanwhile, their families, wives, and children stayed at home in Árva and helped the men's business work. In the end of the 19

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h century and early in the 20

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h century, the second generation started their life amhibious, which shows the fact that the children were born in Árva. During the first decades of the 20

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h century the situation changed, the union of the families happened. The wife moved to the head of the family with their children. Their social connections were much influenced their origin, and identity, and they were on friendly terms first with the population of the Slavonic (Slovaks, Rhutenians). The members of the second generation spoke Hungarian well, but sometimes spoke bad it. The majority of the third generation was born in Hungary, but they were brought up here in any case. Meanwhile the frontiers changed due to the decision of Trianon, which made the connections difficult. The members of the third generation were not different from the neighbours. The population of the region, their tongue became Hungarian entirely. By nowadays, their descendants were assimilated into Hungarians and their origin lives only in their memories. The author shows the history of Matkulcsik family through the birth certificates of Putnok. They arrived from Vavrecka and settled in Putnok,. In the second part of the study, we can read about the textile goods, which are in the collection of the Gömör Museum in Putnok. One descendant of Sznagyik family gave these textile goods away from the trousseau of Mária Sznagyik and her daughter, Katalin Kail. Among them there are damask table clothes and napkins, pillow-cases, nightdresses, women underclothes (panties, shirts), and the most valuable is a damassin towel with the portrait of Joseph Ferenc and the Hungarian crown. Mónika Bodnár