A delightful collection of old photographs showing rural activities found on

http://mek.oszk.hu/02100/02152/html/02/454.html

displaying pictures belonging mostly to the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and
the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest.

"What is this?" and "What is he/she doing?" is what you'll ask yourself, just like I asked myself here and there.
But most of the time you will see the tools and the activities of our ancestors, depending on what they were
doing for a living and in which region they were living.

I do not know why the geese have got a feather in their nose in picture no. 147 (the caption calls them "hamis liba", meaning either "false goose" or "mean goose") and I have never seen a goose stuffing device, like the one in picture no. 148.

But if you ever wondered how the people crossed the rivers, on picture 191 there is a "komp", like there used to be one in Perjamos and in Arad, for instance.

Picture no. 140 helps me imagine how the region, a marshland, might have looked like when our ancestors first arrived there

Click on the images to enlarge... and have fun!