Women's carnivals - a project by the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw

"Women's carnivals" (2015) was the first national study of womens rituals celebrated at the end of the carnival period. Ethnographic studies that documented contemporary rites were recorded on film. Moreover, we attempted to reconstruct the old forms of the rituals by studying archival materials: recorded interviews, przess cuttings, photos, legal acts and 19th century ethnographers' accounts. The project was funded by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and by the Mazovia Voivodeship.