Kovács Zsuzsa: Göcsej Village Museum. Exhibition Guide (Zalaegerszeg, 2008)

Carving chair This chair, 'sziószék' as the local folks call it, is an every day working aid. Men carved for pleasure but they also had to do it because they had to make their own tools and furniture. If they had a little free time they immediately started to do some carving. The 'sziószék' was good for doing tool handles and legs for smaller furniture. The piece of wood was placed to the 'head' of the chair, fastened and then carved with the 'sziókés', which is a sort of carving knife. 10. BARN FROM LENDVAJAKABFA A barn with a huge wattle gate closes the farm yard. This building consists of a 'szérű' barnyard in the middle, a 'szín' (shed) to keep straw in on the left and a pantry on the right. The barn is covered with mud on the side where the pantry is, but the 'szín' is not because through the holes on the logwall the straw could get enough air and did not become mildewed. There is an attic above the pantry where precious crops were kept. The crop for the animals was stored in a smaller grain store in the pantry. 11. PISTY WITH A PANTRY FROM BAGODVITENYÉD The whitewashed pigsty is standing right in front of the barn. At its side there is a pantry with a door, and on the other side there are two double hutches. This pigsty had been used as a chicken cage since 1921. Farm buildings or equipment sometimes got new uses based on the current needs. For the economical peasant households always tried to use everything they had in the most practical way. Therefore nothing was thrown out, there was hardly any waste; when something was worn out and could not fulfil its original task any longer, it got a new useful