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I first came across these over a decade ago on a trip to Poland, and it was really cool to see one randomly crop up in a zombie game!
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I first came across these over a decade ago on a trip to Poland, and it was really cool to see one randomly crop up in a zombie game!
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Inktober Day 17: Ornamentation
i really love the ciupagi (walking sticks/hatchets) that Górale - but particularly the shepherds - use up in the mountain pastures (and the old robbers, can't forget about those!).
and then I figured, who better to draw WITH a ciupaga than Sabała himself? Sabała was a very famous Góral musician, storyteller, and mountain guide - and he may have been a brigand himself! every Góral knows his name - he even has a music genre named after him.
(the ciupaga you see here is one I found in the Ethnographic museum in Kraków)
Dzień dobry. Od tej kolonii zostałam emo. Żartuje. To było tylko dla beki
Plaża i morze. Kolonia Kołobrzeg 2017
Home sweet home #sheepskin #flower #tulip #ciupaga #home #langtoft #Polish #eagle #brick (at Langtoft, Lincolnshire)
If It's Good Enough for Janosik...
If It’s Good Enough for Janosik…
What’s that, officer? This thing? That’s my walking stick… yeah, that’s it!
Go to the southern Polish city of Zakopane, and you might run across the famous Ciupaga… a light axe/walking stick hybrid used by the local shepherds. While it is also popular in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania, and Hungary, this blog is about Poland, so we’ll only refer to those living north of the border!
The local g…
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