Ukraine -- Cherkas'ka oblast' --Drabivs'kyi raion -- Iavorivka
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| Home of Latysh, Polina Iakivna, DOB 1927, and Latysh, Vasyl' Ivanovych, DOB 1934. One of the bedrooms. These windows once looked outside. When the house was expanded and an addition built on, the windows came to look out on a storage area. On the wall are pictures of family members, the top one draped in a rushnyk. Beneath the pictures is an embroidered hanging. Something like this could also have been used for a pillow. Beneath the tulle in what used to be a window. On the right is a large formal portrait of Latysh, Vasyl' Ivanovych. He won top tractor driver of the village honors and this portrait hung in the village office. In the foreground, pillows are covered with tulle during the day, when they are not in use. The couch, which serves as one of the beds at night (there were three beds in the room and five people slept there) has an ornate woven cloth over the back and a cover, like that used on other beds, on the bottom. All of this cloth is supposed to preserve the furniture from wear and tear. It also has a decorative function.
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