Bojkowie (Boykos)

The most characteristic visual designations of Boykowszczyzna are wooden churches, cemeteries, huts - households, everyday utensils, icons, Carpathian embroidery, Carpathian jewelry, as well as elements of pastoral culture. What is more, also the archival photographs of Roman Reinfuss are starting to become a kind of "ethnologo" from Bieszczady. These photographs, after the publication of the album entitled: "Carpathian world of Boykos and Lemkos. Roman Reinfuss. Photographs "are used as a credible scenography in Bieszczady restaurants and exhibition rooms (museum in Myczków, Boyko's cottage in Zatwarnica, restaurant" Pod Żubrem "in Lutowiska).

In the Bieszczady Mountains, a small number of monuments of Orthodox church architecture and cemeteries have survived. The list of objects included in the Wooden Architecture Trail in the Bieszczady Mountains can be found in the official guide "Wooden Architecture Trail in the Subcarpathian Region". The book contains practical information, incl. addresses, telephone numbers, hours of mass, GPS coordinates, making it easier for tourists to walk along the trail. Guide by Stanisław Kryciński entitled "Cerkwie w Bieszczady" is a compendium of knowledge about all wooden and brick churches in the former Greek Catholic deaneries: Baligród, Cisnian, Lesko, Lutowiski, Lałkowski, Turczański, Ustrzyki and Żukotyński.

Souvenirs of material culture can be seen at the exhibition of the Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok. The Boyko sector includes two Boyko houses from Skorodne, the church from Grąziowa, the church from Rosolin, and the pastoral sector.

 

The text comes from the study "INVENTORY OF CULTURAL RESOURCES OF THE BORDERLAND - THE ETHNOCARPATHIA PROJECT" realized by the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University for the District Museum in Rzeszów.

Author: Mrs. Helena Urbanczyk.

 

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