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Harvest figure

STONE, Benjamin

© Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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"Till recent years a rather common form of the revelry and thanksgiving which have ever taken place at the ingathering of the harvest was the Kern, though it has now died out everywhere except in a few Northumbrian villages.

One of the customs of the festival of Ceres, it had many local variations. It was observed in the northern part of Northumberland at the close of the reaping, not the ingathering. Immediately the sickle was laid down and the last sheaf set on end the men shouted that they had "got the kern". Then a curious image was produced – an image dressed in a white frock with coloured ribbons and crowned with corn ears – stuck on a pole, and held aloft by the strongest man of the party while the rest circled round it. Subsequently it was taken to the barn, set on high, and the merrymakers fell to on the harvest supper."

Quoted from Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures: Records Of National Life And History (Cassell, 1904)


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 55288

Creation/Production

STONE, Benjamin
Date: 1901

Acquisition

Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017

Measurements

(): h(cm) image size:25.6
(): h(cm)
(): w(cm) image size:20.5
(): w(cm)
(): h(cm) paper:30.6
(): w(cm) paper:25.5

Techniques

gelatin silver print

Material

Photographic paper

Location

In store
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Tags

  • Communities And Society
  • Fine Art
  • Photograph
  • Rural Community
  • Stone Benjamin
  • Tradition
  • Works On Paper

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