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Code: 337856 Available
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| Number: | 1352 |
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| Value: | 3.30 HRK |
| Design: | Orsat Franković, designer, Zagreb |
| Photo: | Ivo Pervan |
| Size: | 35.50 x 35.50 mm |
| Paper: | white 102 g, gummed |
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| Perforation: | Comb,14 |
| Technique: | Multicolored Offsetprint |
| Printed by: | AKD d.o.o., Zagreb |
| Date of issue: | 1/7/2021 |
| Quantity: | 50 000 copies per motif + 3 000 copies in common sheetlets |
Pentecost is a Christian holiday celebrated on the fiftieth day i.e., the sixth Sunday after Easter. On Pentecost, lesser-known customary and ritual practices were held in Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem, known as queens and kings. Similar customs are found in some other Slavic and non-Slavic peoples (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania). One such young girl's ritual procession called ljelje, according to the chorus in the songs, was held in the village of Gorjani not far from Đakovo.
Gorjani is a large Slavonian village, with an interesting and long history, known for breeding Lipizzaner horses and rich costumes decorated with gold embroidery. The custom would have been almost forgotten if it had not been well researched, described and documented in the 1950s by the famous Slavonian ethnologist, Zdenka Lechner, who restored and presented it together with a longtime and meritorious Gorjani teacher, Lucija Karalić.
The ritual procession through the village begins in the afternoon on Pentecost Sunday when a procession of young girls dressed in festive colourful silk clothes starts from one house. At the head of the procession are the kings in pairs, recognizable by their conical flower caps decorated with feathers, immortelle and needle grass, mirrors and ribbons, carrying a sword in their right hand. They are followed by queens with wreaths of wax myrtle on their heads. They are accompanied by a musician, bagpiper or tambourine player and gift collectors. They tour the village singing traditional songs and enter the courtyards where they are greeted by the hosts. There they sing songs with appropriate verses intended for each family or individual household, and the kings perform a ritual circle dance with various dance figures as they strike with their swords. When the dance circle ends, the hosts treat the girls, and the celebration continues after visiting all the houses with the food and drinks gathered along the way.
This spring custom of great antiquity from Gorjani was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009.
Tihana Petrović Leš, PhD
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
| Number: | UNESCO |
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| Type: | C |
| Description: | Motifs: međimurska popevka (a folk song from Međimurje), annual spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice (queens) from Gorjani, Za križen (following the cross) procession on the island of Hvar, art of drywall construction Author: Orsat Franković, designer from Zagreb Authors of photographs: Ivo Pervan (spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice (queens) from Gorjani, art of drywall construction), Mario Romulić and Dražen Stojčić (Za križen procession on the island of Hvar), Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (međimurska popevka) The stamps were issued in 8-stamp sheetlets, and a common 4-stamp sheetlet with five labels was printed. Croatian Post has also issued a First Day Cover (FDC). The label with the stamp Međimurska popevka was realized in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (IEF) in Zagreb (documentary material is the musical notation for the song "Na boru popeva lepa ftičica” (A beautiful little bird sings on the pine tree); Vinko Žganec, Hrvatske pučke popijevke iz Međimurja (Croatian folk songs from Međimurje), volume XI., 1920, 1923 - 1925, 1934 - 1944; IEF rkp N 23, record no. 1033). |
| Date: | 1/7/2021 |
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