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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ТРАВЕНЬ 2009 31 ancient techniques and patterns, and private collectors who have preserv ed the treasurers of the past. The presentation concluded with a series of slides illustrating how people dress during the holidays in Ukraine and fashion that is ushering in an exciting contemporary evolution of traditional Ukrainian embroidery into the f uture. The third presenter, Ta nia Diakiw O’Neill, spoke on “The Threads That Bind Us: Historical Overview,” a topic that ranged from symbolism in culture, to the ethnographic work of Olena Pchilka, to the challenges of preserving a cultural identity in an environment far removed from Ukraine. Ms. O’Neill’s seminar focused primarily on the history of symbols, which date back to the Paleolithic Age. Showing a succession of slides depicting artifacts from successive centuries, she spoke about recurring patte rns and symbols, which, while evolving over time, retained their core shape or motif or style. The patterns visible on ancient statuettes from the Trypillian region are repeated in embroidery, she noted, pointing out a recurring motif with a dot within a f ield circumscribed and defined by a series of hooks, at times angular and at times curved. She indicated that ethnographers do not know the precise meaning of the underlying symbols, but agree that the pattern is constant and ve ry likely protective in inte nt. Like the previous speakers, Ms. O’Neill provided anecdotal examples of the evolution of embroidery and things and events, good or ill, that influenced this evolution. The most poignant story was about a Holodomor survivor who settled in a remote villag e, bring her embroidered wedding dress. Government officials came to the village and gave the inhabitants embroidery cloth with printed patterns — the old embroidery was taken away or lost. The wedding dress was taken to a museum, no one is certain where. T he exhibit, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, was a resounding success. Attendance at the reception and seminars was high and varied — elderly matrons rubbing elbows with teenagers, young mother s pointing out interesting details to toddlers, even a few gentlemen. Special credit and congratulations must be accorded to a ll Branch 88 members and their friends and relatives who contributed their vyshyvky and their time (ironing, hanging exhibits, tak ing down exhibits, transporting exhibits, cleaning up, advertising, preparing and setting up the buffet); Chrystyna Prokopovych, curator of the Ukrainian Heritage Studies Center; Manor College President Sister Mary Cecilia Jurasinski, OSBM ; and director of the UHSC Sister Marie Francis Walchonski, OSBM. Members of UNWLA Branch 88, Philadelphia Regional Council who organized and hosted the three - day exhibit.
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