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

3. THE MUSEUM VILLAGE

Pans and throughs, earthenware dishes and pots are hung on the walls of the kitchen and the vault of the ante-chamber arranged symmetrically. On the bench in front of the oven there are cast iron casseroles and fireproof earthenware pots which are thrust into the hot oven with the aid of a fork made for the purpose called a „kuruglya". Prunes are dried on the top of the oven in flat baskets (111. 28). During the winter, the little family moves into the warmth of the best room, but in summertime they use the pantry which is then considered as the back „room". Besides old-time furniture such as the very long chest and the low table, the „little bed" and the chest, a newer type of bed is also placed here, a high bed with a rounded-off end, the predecessor of Neo-Biedermeir beds. A low bed rolling on wheels stands beneath it, which can be pulled out when needed. Its covering is a blanket woven of wool and rags. A mantle of simple cut, called a „guba", is thrown on the bed, and can be used as blanket or cushion. On an iron hanger of serpentine 29. The pattern of human figures on a weaving in the smaller room of the Botpalád house 42