This is a male doll wearing the
traditional outfit of Pontos.
Pontos was a place in Asia Minor,
where Greeks used to live.
The doll has a skeleton made of wire.
The limbs and the head are made of clay.
The torso is filled with pillow filling.
The outfit is mostly made of felt fabric.
He is painted with acrylics.
Pontos was a place in Asia Minor,
where Greeks used to live.
The doll has a skeleton made of wire.
The limbs and the head are made of clay.
The torso is filled with pillow filling.
The outfit is mostly made of felt fabric.
He is painted with acrylics.
About
353,000 Greeks from Asia Minor were exterminated the period 1916-1923. Turkish
genocide of Pontian, looting, the burning of villages, hangings and
deportations that followed, succeeded in altering the ethnological character of
Greek regions. More than 400,000 displaced people arrived in caravan in
metropolitan Greece leaving behind a culture aged three millennia and ancestral
lands, churches, tombs and schools. They began a struggle for survival while
trying to maintain the Pontic culture, music, language, traditions and customs.
For decades the Pontian fight to restore the memory of the victims, the
recognition of the genocide by Turkey. The Greek Parliament recognized the
genocide in 1994 and passed the declaration of May 19 as "Day of
Remembrance for the Genocide of Greeks in Pontus Asia Minor."
Δεν υπάρχουν σχόλια:
Δημοσίευση σχολίου