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I ricordi di una signora (Dorina Cancelliere) che è vissuta nei Sassi, nei pressi dell’attuale Museo: i nomi e i soprannomi dei vicini di casa, episodi di vita quotidiana, i nomi degli utensili usati in cucina rievocati nel Museo Laboratorio della Civiltà Contadina di Matera.
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In Via del Commercio (now Via delle Beccherie) there were numerous coppersmiths’ shops (quallaroll). They worked on a typical three leg seat constituted by a strong wood easel with a long iron bar inserted oblique in the center of the seat: it was shaped by a side to give the shape to the bottom of […]
In Matera the production of artefact in terracotta was flourishing (objects for domestic use, materials for building) because of the large availability of clay in the zone. It was extracted from the gullies and the lake basins and carefully cleaned up to eliminate the lime in order to avoid that the objects produced get bursted […]
Most of the peasants lived in the caves or later in the ‘lamione’ a single-room on ground floor illuminated and aired just by the entry-door and a window above it. The mule shed was inside the men’s residence: some times the manger was so close to the beds that during the night it was not […]
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