Slovenski etnografski muzej

Whetstone holders

the collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Zbirka 
Knjižnica SEM
Leto izdaje 
1994
Strani 
319
Trgovina 
Publikacije
Cover of the book Whetstone holders

Notwithstanding 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...

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