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XVIII КОНВЕНЦІЯ СУА 82 Museums are quite effective awakeners of national identity. Occupiers of Ukraine realized this very well. Ukrainian museums on non-Ukrainian territory can play a very important role in the education of those born stateside, in the preservation of a Ukrainian emigre identity, as well as in familiarizing the American public with the Ukrainian culture. The Ukrainian Museum in New York is not just a temporary exhibit of national art which will shine and then be forgotten. Instead, it is a base from which information and advice can constantly be reaped. It is a scientific source and document of our culture. ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTION The Ukrainian Museum is, firstly, an ethnographic museum. In it are found over 100 items, representing various kinds of folk creativity, such as woodcarving, embroidery, textiles, carpet making, ceramic, metallurgy, etc. The foundation of the museum is a collection of folk art, purchased in 1933 in Lviv. Since then it has been supplemented by purchases or gifts from people, who have brought samples of folk art to the states and donated them to the museum, realizing that this is the best method of preservation and propagation. The collection s very multi-faceted but does not contain samples from all of the Ukrainian regions. Most of the articles come from the western area of Ukraine. Among the items are very valuable examples of folk artistry, e. g., works of metal (necklaces, pipes, crosses); leather goods; rugs (kylymy) including one from Podilia from the 18th century; ceramics from Pistyn and Kosiv of such craftsmen as P. Koshak, K. Wozniak and the Tsvilyks. The museum also has woven ’’rushnyky” (ritual cloths) from Krolevets, ’’rushnyky” from Klembivka embroidered with metallic thread, a large number of women’s and men’s shirts, women’s head cloths and much more. The museum, does, however, need more to complete regional collections. The work of the Ukrainian Museum during its first year and one half has been mainly in three branches: exibits, publications and educational programs. EXHIBITS The inaugural exhibition mainly served the purpose of familiarizing the public with Ukrainian folk art. The articles exhibited were only 8 percent of the entire collection. Both the Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian viewers were introduced to the different branches of folk artistry and the variety of designs, colors and methods. The following groups were represented: woven cloths, women’s head cloths, Volhynian and Polissian woven textiles, embroidered shirts, woven lower body garments (belts, aprons, wraps), woven household textiles (table clothes, rugs), metalwork, woodwork, ceramics. The second exhibition, organized a half year after the opening of the museum, was the result of a contest sponsored by the museum of ritual breads and Easter eggs (pysanky) and opened in conjunction with the Easter holidays, on March 25, 1977. Exhibited were over 40 different ritual breads and 300 pysanky from the different regions of Ukraine. Among the ritual breads were: wedding breads (korovai, dyveni, shyshky, hiltsia) Easter breads (pasky), Christmas ’’kolachi” and ’’knyshi” spring baked goods (krendli, ptashky) and commomorative breads for the dead. Some of the exhibited pysanky were on loan from Prof. D. Horniatkevych, Jaroslava Surmach-Mills, Jaroslav Elyjiw and, with the help of Mr. Elyjiw, some were also borrowed from Ms. Maria Holod and the League of Ukrainian Catholic Women of Canada. With the assistance of Mr. Elyjiw, the pysanky were exhibited according to region or style, such as ’’forty triangles” or ’’gypsy routes.” The third exhibit — ’’Traditional Designs in Ukrainian Textiles” — opened October 30, 1977; This exhibition concentrates on national folk costumes (18 full costumes and 17 components) from differenl regions of Ukraine, predominantly the Western regions. Exhibited also are woven and embroidered ritual cloths and other textiles. On one wall are www.unwla.org
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