Men making baskets and other goods from cane at the ethnographic museum in Custonaci during a live nativity presentation. Thank you Experience Sicily’s Evelina Buttitta for this photo.
Tag: ethnography
Shoes and Song
The Museo Etno-Antropologico Annalisa Buccellato in Castellammare del Gulfo possesses a magnificent exhibit of items from past peasant-life in western Sicily. I can’t say enough about the glimpses it gives us into “the old days.” For example, this guitar, which of course, as a musician, attracted my attention. I’ll transcribe for you the explanation of…