Mother' s Dear Babies - Day of Grandmother

Versiune în Limba Română AICI.

In some villages, women celebrated Day of Grandmother/Midwife (Ziua babei). The essential element of this celebration is the scenario of ritual gestures that women bring an offering of gratitude to the old woman who helped give birth to children.

At birth of a child, mothers gave to midwife a gift: a dress, soap, a towel. In the Day of Midwife she received round bread, a pie, a chicken, wine, and she cooked three or four dishes.

Sequence from the temporary exhibition Mother' s Dear Babies  (Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum Tulcea)

And with this occasion, women wear beautiful adornments.

Sequence from the temporary exhibition Mother' s Dear Babies  (Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum Tulcea)

Sequence from the temporary exhibition Mother' s Dear Babies  (Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum Tulcea)

And finally... the (temporary) answer to a question of every child of the world: who brought me here???

Sequence from the temporary exhibition Mother' s Dear Babies  (Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum Tulcea)