Slovenski etnografski muzej
Whetstone holders
the collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Zbirka
Knjižnica SEMAvtor
mag. Inja SmerdelLeto izdaje
1994ISBN
86-81539-03-5Strani
319Trgovina
PublikacijeNotwithstanding the level of mechanisation of modern agriculture, whetstone holders are still in use in many places throughout Slovenia.
However, to many people - of different levels of education - the word oselnik sounds unfamiliar. This is generally true for people in urban centres, but also of those living in villages where the object has a quite different name. Everybody, though, knows what a scythe is...