An image from Ivan Honchar's Historical Ethnographic Art Album, 'Ukraine and Ukrainians,' volume 'Poltava region.' Ivan Honchar Museum, https://honchar.org.ua/en/collections/detail/3070.
An album of art and photographs created by Ivan Hochar. It contains pictures of art and ethnographic information of the Poltava region, its people, and its culture. Part of a larger collection of volumes showing Ukraine and its people.
A silyanka necklace handmade with interwoven glass beads and white metal. Traditionally worn as a choker, it often complemented other jewelry pieces. It could also be worn as a hair piece. This necklace originated in Podilia.
This oil folk painting on fabric by Jarmolenko Panas displays a young woman wearing a traditional “Vinok” flower crown. These crowns were worn by women of marital age to signify purity.
This Ukrainian wedding flower crown is made of paper, cotton fabric, paraffin, and wire. It was created in 1956 in Osichki of the Podilsk Raion of the Odesa Oblast.
This necklace was crafted with a cotton thread and painted beads. It was believed that objects such as this had a positive effect on a woman's health and beauty.
This traditional Ukrainian Flower crown was made using paper, foil, wax, and wire, and techniques such as cutting, and encaustic, which is hot wax painting. Crowns such as this one were worn by women of marital age to represent purity.