BIHAREA 2025 CONTENTS
ETNOGRAPHY
ELA COSMA: The First Mention of the ”Girls’ Fair” from the Western Carpathians in the Saxon Memories of Michael Conrad von Heydendorff the Elder (1793)…………………………. 5
IOAN GOMAN: Documentary evidence of crafts practiced in localities along the upper Crișul Repede valley in the first half of the 20th century (1900-1945)…………………………. 19
MELANIA ȚĂRĂU: The typology of the traditional houses în Avram Iancu village (Bihor county). Case study……………………………………………………. 93
SABINA HORVATH, ANA MARIA POPA: Considerations regarding the nourishment of the inhabitants of Băița (Bihor county. Current testimonies)………………………………….…………. 125
VASILE TODINCA: Identity markers of popular culture………………………………….…………. 143
ART
AGATA CHIFOR (ADEL): Compositional Typologies, Christian Symbols and Iconographic
Analogies in Still Lifes from the Universal Painting Collection of the Țării Crișurilor Museum Oradea –Museum Complex, second half of the 17th century – 19th century………………………………………………………………………….…………. 151
MUZEOGRAPHY
MARIA FLAVIA POP: Cultic objects from Pietroasa village in the collection of the Ethnography Department of the Țării Crișurilor Museum Oradea – Museum Complex……………………………………………………………….…………. 179
SIMONA BALA: Striped woolen skirts in Roșia-Pietroasa ethnographic subzone in the Țării Crișurilor Museum Collection (I)……………………………………………………………….…………. 191
CONSERVATION-RESTAURATION
ELISABETA ARDELEAN, SZILÁGYI MÁRIA ILDIKÓ : Conservation and restoration interventionson two knotted carpets from the collection of the Țării Crișurilor Museum……………………………………………………………….…………. 215
ELISABETA ARDELEAN: Restoration of Two Towels from the Textile Collection of the Ethnography Department of the Criș Country Museum …………………………………………. 231
ARTICLES AND NOTES
AUGUSTIN ȚĂRĂU, ADRIAN GAGIU : ”Vir Ferus Transylvaniae” (1784). Opinions and hypotheses …………………………………………………………………. 253
IOAN BORZA: Notes from Georgia ………………………………………………… 283