Upotreba platna pri nošenju tereta na području panonskog areala u Jugoslaviji
The Use of Linen in Carrying Load in the Pannonic Region of Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The contribution investigates the carrying of loads with the aid of linen devices in the Pannonic region of Yugoslavia from several aspects: a) terms used of linen devices (recipients and head supporters for loads carried on the head) with a comment on their forms; b) all main ways of carrying and their variants which appear in the region, for men and women; c) kinds of loads which are carried; d) the role of women and that of men in carrying loads in linen devices and the ways of carving characteristic for each sex. A more thorough interpretation of some of the ways of carrying load was made possible with the help of a similar analysis applied to a wider Pannonin territory in an article by A. Palädi-Koväcs. Two phenomena — carrying on the head and on the back in such a way that the load is thrown over one shoulder — are known in continuity in our and in Hungarian areas. Two other ways — carrying on the back in sheets tied on the chest and carrying in linen hung on the shoulder — are found in the north of Hungary among the Slovak population and in the northwest regions of Patmonia in Yugoslavia. The author contends that the last two phenomena could throw light to historical links between some of western and southern Slavs.

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