Benedek Csaba – H. Bathó Edit – Gulyás Katalin – Horváth László – Kaposvári Gyöngyi szerk.: Tisicum - A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 14. (2004)

Homage to the 60-Year-Old Anikó Füvessy

in 1967 in Hungárián linguistics and literature and ethnography. The same year she moved to Tószeg, and as an assistant museologist started working at Damjanich Museum of Szolnok. She was transferred to Kiss Pál Museum in 1968, where she was appointed director, and she is still working there. In 1972, she took her doctorate at the ethnography department of ELTE University, Budapest with her thesis Rustic Beekeeping in North Borsod. In 1992, she earned the title of candidate with her excellent dissertation on the pottery of Tiszafüred. During her 37-year-long scientific career, Anikó Füvessy studied and treated a variety of subjects. She started her research with rural beekeeping in 1967, for which she had collected most materials in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, but she alsó carried out prober explorations in the Jászság region. Her papers about beekeeping were published in Ethnographia. She started her inquiries in the areas of popular nutrition, folkways and folk art in Tiszafüred, among which the collection of legends about Józsa Gyuri and beliefs about Pénzásó (Moneydigger) Pista, a local wizard are of special importance. The results of her research came out in various museum almanacs and keepsake volumes as articles and studies. She was studying this area at the beginning of the 1990s as part of a Hungarian-Rumanian joint collection along the FeketeKörös and south Bihar in Hungary. After 1976 her main area of research became the pottery of Tiszafüred, then that of the whole Hungárián Plain, she has published a number of studies on this topic. In 1979, she received a county award for her exercitation about the potter family Katona Nagy. She was a member of the research team that created the best-seller monograph called Folk art of Szolnok County published by Európa Könyvkiadó in 1987. In this volume, she worked up the pottery of the county. At present, Anikó Füvessy is a nationwide acknowledged researcher of folk pottery. She has been dealing with saddle making of Tiszafüred for more than ten years and the famous motifs of these saddles. She publishes the results of her studies in papers and lectures. She continuously publishes her essays in professional journals (Ethnographia, Néprajzi Értesítő, HOM Közlemények), almanacs (Tisicum, Hermann Ottó Múzeum Evkönyve) and in several professional volumes. She is a frequent attendant and lecturer at various ethnographical conferences (International Ethnic Conference, Ethnographic Conferences etc.) She regularly carries out ethnographical and archivál researches. She has taken part in joint collections several times (Kiskunság, Nagykunság, Tiszazug, the Valley of the Fekete-Kőrös etc.) and in interpretation of the collected materials. She has been managing the Tiszafüred museum for more than three decades with great competence and enthusiasm, and during this time she has created two standing and several temporary exhibitions. The one that stands out in the row of exhibitions is the permanent exhibition called Craftsmen and Masterpieces, which opened in 2001, while among her temporary exhibitions the successful saddle (1992), pottery of Transylvania (1993, Representation Of Animals In Hungárián Folk Art (1994) and the 120

th anniversary exhibition of the Kiss Pál Museum are worth mentioning. With her colleagues, she organised an exhibition in Finland (Rihiimáki, Uusikaupinki) called The Folk Art of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County in 1996. Among the conferences that she has organised, we have to mention the ones called The Representation of Animals in Hungárián Folk Art (1994), 120 years of Kiss Pál Museum (1997) and a conference about the history of religion (2000). Anikó Füvessy is not only a nationwide acknowledged researcher of folklóré, but at the same time she is a talented organiser as well. During her career as director, the Kiss Pál Museum, as a member of the Association of JászNagykun-Szolnok County Museums, has joined the circulatory system of the Hungárián museum system. The social basis that has emerged around the institution is an eloquent example of the local acknowledgement and recognition of the museum. The popular series of Tiszafüredi Füzetek is published by the Tariczky Foundation, which has helped the work of the museum for years. Anikó Füvessy carries out a wide rangé of scientific and public educational activities. She is a member of TIT (Scientific Educational Society), the Hungárián Ethnographic Society and the Pulszky Society. Her scientific and public work has been honoured with several awards. In 1992 she received Pro Űrbe and Kátai Gábor awards, academic award in 1999, and Bugát Pál award in 2001. In 2002 she was awarded with the most important museum prize, the Móra Ferenc Award. Anikó Füvessy turnéd 60, but only according to the register. In reality, however, she has remained the same feathered-soul youth who we met a long time ago, and with whom we have been working for years. While writing these lines, I cannot help remembering the long ago ethnographic collections, the meals in the museum, the conversations, singing and dancing together. And now I have the privilege to hail her at this illustrious occasion. Where I come írom, the Jazigyan people used to fül the Jazigyan Horn with wine to salute to the resounded person's health. In my imagination, I am filling the ancient horn with the most delicious wine and saluting it to you, Anikó. May God give you a long life in health and happiness. May you take pleasure in your family and work in every second of your life. On behalf of my colleagues, I wish you to work amongst us and in Hungárián ethnography for many years to come. Edit H Bathó Scientific Secretary 11