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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2017, 5 (137), 1168—1172

UDK 391.7:745 (477.85/.87) “187/195”

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2017.05.1168

BREAST JEWELRY OF HUTSULSHCHYNA IN THE CONTEXT OF PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FOLK TRADITIONS

Frank Ivan Mykolaiovych, Head of the Department of Metal Art

at the Lviv National Academy of Arts,

Kubiiovycha Str., 38, Lviv, 79011, Ukraine.

Contacts: Tel. (032) 2761482; e-mail: office@lnam.edu.ua

Abstract. Formation and development of traditions of producing and decoration of breast jewelry of hutsuls are tracing; modifications of traditional ethnic cultural phenomena connected with social changes in society are detecting; appearance of new ethnic cultural qualities on the basis of modern social and cultural changes is investigating. There has been made a try to trace stages of history of the main and auxiliary components of breast jewelry due to preservation and multiplication of folk traditions; both the development of decorative art at Hutsulshchyna is traced.

Keywords: function, breast, jewelry, folk tradition.

Received 25.07.2017

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