Ethnography

Hutsuls – shepherds of the Eastern Carpathians

Hustuls (Ukr. Гуцули, Ro. Huțuli) is an ethnic group of highlanders living in part of the Eastern Carpathians – Gorgany, Chornohora, Svydovets, Marmorian Carpathians, Połoniny...

Highlanders of the Carpathian arc

Hutsuls, Ruthenian highlanders of the Eastern Carpathians in the nineteenth century, have already been regarded as people not “spoiled” by civilisation. Next to Boykos, which are adjacent...

Live art of vivid highlanders

Hutsul culture is art and handicraft; ceramics, woodcarving products, wonderful fabrics: kilims, napkins, lizhnycks, embroidered sweatshirts, shirts, scarves and metal products: buckles, crosses and...