QUERY: OLD BELIEVER FOLK ART (fwd)

[Amy Rachel Goldenberg]

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> >Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:23:03 -0400
> >From: Martin Ryle <mryle at richmond.edu>
> >Subject: QUERY: OLD BELIEVER FOLK ART
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> >Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:17:28 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: cmad8085 at uriacc.uri.edu (Cheryl A. Madden)
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> >Hi,
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> >The book Daily Life in Russia Under the Last Tsar by Henri Troyat, ISBN:
> >0-8047-1030-9, Stanford Univ. Press, 1992, p. 78 states that the Old
> >Believers "knew each other by various signs (rings, rosaries, wooden
spoons
> >painted according to a special design)."
> >Does anyone know what this special design was, or what the special
> >significance of the colours were, particularly the colour green?
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> >Please feel free to forward this message to any other source you think
might
> >be able to provide the answers to these questions.
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> >Thanks!
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> >Cheryl A. Madden
> >cmad8085 at uriacc.uri.edu
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