The Sicilian Ethnographic Museum Giuseppe Pitrè (

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: Museo Etnografico Siciliano Giuseppe Pitrè) is a

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

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. The museum has two locations: the main part is located in one of the Palazzina Cinese's guesthouse, inside La Favorita Park, and another is in the Albergaria quarter, within the historic centre of Palermo. The museum was founded by the scholar

Giuseppe Pitrè Giuseppe Pitrè (22 December 184110 April 1916) was an Italian people, Italian Folkloristics, folklorist, medical doctor, professor, and senator for Sicily. As a folklorist he is credited with extending the concept of folklore to include all man ...

in 1909 and is named after him. It houses a rich

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containing more than 30,000 volumes and provides many types of documentation about Sicilian culture, traditions and folklore.

Costumes

The costume section opens with men's clothes. The most primitive is that of shepherds consisting of a

jacket A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has sleeves and fastens in the front or slightly on the side. Jackets without sleeves are vests. A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and ...

and

breeches Breeches ( ) are an article of clothing covering the body from the waist down, with separate coverings for each leg, usually stopping just below the knee, though in some cases reaching to the ankles. Formerly a standard item of Western men's ...

() formed with goat skins. Animal skin also the pocket, carried crossbody, where wine and food were placed, and the typical footwear, the . Various models of festive costume, of which the breeches (''càusi''), the waistcoat ('''u cileccu''), the jacket, the cap () or a

turban A turban (from Persian language, Persian دولبند‌, ''dolband''; via Middle French ''turbant'') is a type of headwear based on cloth winding. Featuring many variations, it is worn as customary headwear by people of various cultures. Commun ...

() are some of the typical elements. The museum has different types of hats, related to street life and fields, such as , worked with straw filaments. Shirts and underpants are part of a newer kit. With fine linen, the shirt is wide and wide, while the underpants are always long and white. The base of heavier garments, including the , a long cloak with a hood, was , a heavy woolen fabric, which in Sicily was almost always colored in black. Of ''orbace'' for example is the typical costume of the peasants of

Modica Modica (; ) is a city and municipality (''comune'') in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily, southern Italy. The city is situated in the Hyblaean Mountains. It has 53,413 inhabitants. Modica has neolithic origins and it represents the historical cap ...

. On display in the museum are disparate simple women's costumes for fabrics and cutting, sumptuous for brocades and sewers. Those of the peasants were usually composed of a cotton bust (dispersals), the ''petti coat'' () and an

apron An apron is a garment worn over other clothing to cover the front of the body to protect from liquids. They have several purposes, most commonly as a functional accessory that protects clothes and skin from stains and marks. However, other typ ...

().

References

External links

Official website

Museo etnografico siciliano Giuseppe Pitrè - ''balarm.it''
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