Kecskés Péter (szerk.): Upper Tisza region (Regional Units of Open Air Museum. Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1980)

3. THE MUSEUM VILLAGE

only through its products, honey and wax; whole hives of bees could be sold and in the autumn also hives full with honey. In the springs, bees would be taken out to the fields. In the fields the hives were placed into the sort of apiary as is exhibited on the outskirts of the Upper Tisza unit (7), its walls of wickerwork, its roof of hay. The hives are not fixed close to the wall, so that the bee-keeper should be free to move about them (111. 50.). The church Buildings belonging to the community stand in the central part of the village, and this is also the site of the Calvinist church coming from the village of Mánd (5—2). When describing the architecture of the church, the same terms may be used as when describing peasant houses, for its building-technique fits exactly into the terms of popular architecture. It was a common undertaking for the com51. Detail of a portion of the wall of the Calvinist church from Mánd (made while the church was being bemobilized, from the south entrance) 68