From jvegvari@dragon.klte.hu Mon Nov 25 06:53:38 1996 Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.08/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA20930; Mon, 25 Nov 96 06:53:37 -0800 Received: from dragon.klte.hu. (dragonwww.cic.klte.hu [193.6.138.50]) by mx5.u.washington.edu (8.8.2+UW96.10/8.8.2+UW96.10) with SMTP id GAA22886 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 06:53:33 -0800 Received: from tea.flc.klte.hu by dragon.klte.hu. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA25678; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:51:45 +0100 Received: by tea.flc.klte.hu with Microsoft Mail id <01BBDAE8.80ECEFE0@tea.flc.klte.hu>; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:51:21 +-200 Message-Id: <01BBDAE8.80ECEFE0@tea.flc.klte.hu> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dr=2E_V=E9gv=E1ri_J=F3zsef?= To: "'anthro-l'" , "'Central-Asia-Studies-L'" , "'indknow'" , "'FOLKLORE@tamvm1.tamu.edu'" Subject: Decorations or carvings on herdsmen's staves Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:50:10 +-200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear All, As an earlier posting brought no response (apparently owing to some = technical problem) may I address you again with the problem of = herdsmen`s sticks with special regard to the inlaid or carved = decorations on them. I am engaged in a study of Hungarian staves, trying = to find ways of interpreting their ritual decorations and looking for = analogues in other nations' folk art. I would be grateful for any = suggestions or information and post a summary on the list. Thanks. .