Keywords: Szathmary - Paparuda.jpg www archive org/stream/journalofgypsyl03gypsuoft page/10/ LeÃrás a 11 -es képrÅ‘l 11 ”Two young Gypsy girls and between them a little boy engaged in singing the Papa-roiida under the direction of an old woman Bucharest This photograph was executed at Bucharest in 1869 by my orders from the group who sung the Papa-rouda before my house ” I K Photographed by Carol Szathmari Bucharest At the arrival of spring it is the custom in Roumania Servia and Bulgaria for a group of Gypsy children quite alone or under the guidance of a woman or an older girl themselves only halfclad or actually naked and having their heads and loins wreathed about with green branches of wild plants to go from one house to another before each of which they dance and sing as they dance a certain song This song is called ' Papa-roiida' from these words which are repeated at the end of every strophe The language employed is the language of the countrj' When the song and the dance are finished some person emerges from the house with a can of water and then after pouring the water over the singers gives them one or two small coins and sends them away Szathmári Pap Károly cigány fotográfiák 8 10 és a 11 kép a 69 és 70 oldalon www archive org/stream/journalofgypsyl03gypsuoft page/10/ PDF változat ia700208 us archive org/9/items/journalofgypsyl03gypsuoft még könyvek a cigányokról more books Journal of the Gypsy www archive org/search php query Journal 20of 20the 20Gypsy http //www flickr com/photos/36481158 N02/5825074316/in/photostream/ 1869 Creator Carol Popp de Szathmary PD 1869 in Bucharest Photographs by Carol Popp de Szathmáry 19th-century photographs of Romania Dodola Roma people in Romania Roma women Gypsy dance 19th-century photographs of dance PD-old-100 |