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

3. THE MUSEUM VILLAGE

sant way-of-life was also present in the house, especially in the back room with its stamped eathern floor and tiny windows. The furniture of this room was also made by cabinet-makers, except for the little bed placed beside the fireplace, less a bed than a resting place for napping in the daytime. The portable iron cooking-stove stood here only in wintertime, in the summer being put in the kitchen. Earthenware pottery hangs in the kitchen, such as rare very large glazed pots made in Nagybánya; the kitchen pots and utensils are used daily. Those utensils which are needed only occasionally have been placed in the little pantry to the side of the kitchen. The room kept for visitors is indeed a „best room" („tiszta szoba"). All the furniture was made by a cabinetmaker of Szatmárnémeti, in 1905, consisting of: a hanging wardrobe of walnut lined with pine, beds with chiselled decoration and bars ending in knobs, tables with turned legs, chairs to match the wardrobe, a small cupboard or „etage" („etuzsért") on which there is a row of china and glassware in Nouveau Art style, the sofa upholstered in shiny canvas, all furniture that is Eclectic in style. There are homemade ragmats placed on the floor; the bedding is in linen-covers from Rumburg and is decorated with lace, quilted eiderdowns belong to the bedding; double draped curtains cover the windows. Curtains were woven at home; everyday-curtains were made of hemp-linen with brownish stripes dyed with vitriol; for holidays and if an honoured guest was expected curtains and also bedcovers woven out of white cotton with a pattern of „pumpkinseeds" were used to make the room look more festive. In this „best room" there is already an oillamp hanging above the table (111. 37.). All the farm-buildings around the yard derive from a single farmyard, that of the Makay family in Sonkád. There is a stable („istálló") right behind the house (3—2); facing, is a bake-house („sütőház") attached to the granary („kamra") (3—6); beside it is a pigsty („disznóól") (3—7), and in the back part of the garden a huge barn („csűr") (3—8); these buildings are the most homogeneous unit of the Open Air Museum. The buildings were exactly dated by a large receptacle that used to stand in the granary with the inscription: „Made by István Makay in the year 1864 July 6th". All these buildings have the same kind of construction, being built on a log base into which the wooden frame-work was inserted; the walls are made of oak planks with no plastering on them (except for the stable), and the roof is covered with wooden shingles. All were built by the same carpenter, Bálint Huszár. Not every buildings has been exhibited in the form in which it was found before being taken to 51