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

work of a peasant household. This house was first built in the 19th century, its present form however, is the result of several rebuildings and the addition of annexes. Originally it had a smoky room and a pantry, then the house was extended by taking up space from the entrance. In the room we can see the marks of the building up on the wall. The pantry was turned into a room and the curved side of the house was enlarged with pigsties. 21. PANTRY FROM SZENTERZSEBETHEGY To the food pantry standing beside the house, belongs another small pantry with a door. A kind of shed for the yoke is in front of the pantry and there is a cellar next to it. In this cool cellar, wine, potatoes and fruit were stored, and in the small pantry, corn and bread were kept. In the attic, the corn was left to dry. According to the last owner this building was 200 years old in 1961. This pantry is not built from logs but from wattle. This wall type was widespread in this region and was used for farm buildings and cellars. They made it by sticking rods into a wooden base at equal distance from each other and then they wove it into wattle with hazel sticks. Then these walls were covered with mud and whitewashed just like the logwalls. 22. A SPECIAL BARN FROM NAGYKUTAS All the largest farming equipment: harrows, various yokes, grinders and wagons are stored in this barn. These were the everyday tools of the 19th century peasant farms. Through the so-called 'torok' (throat) sticking out from the front part of the building we can get to the 'cséplőszín' (a place where the thrashing was done). If we look up, we can see the construction of the roof and the way in which it was thatched. The ridgepole runs along the 'spine' of the roof, the rafters are put against it, there are slats nailed on the rafters and the straw bunches are tied onto them. Thatching starts with making the straw bunches. Two handfuls of rye straw are tied lightly with a rope, then turned over on each other. These doubled bunches are fastened onto the roof one by one in such a way that the 'skirt' of the Hi I • "i