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===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Arreoa-erakusten-Bidegoian-1957.jpg|Exhibition of the bridal trousseau. Bidegoian (G), 1957. Source: Ana Larrarte, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.]===
 
===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Caserio-Zurutuza-Zeanuri-1925.jpg|Zurututza Farmhouse. Zeanuri (B), c. 1925. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.]===
 
===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Caserio-Zurutuza-Zeanuri-1925.jpg|Zurututza Farmhouse. Zeanuri (B), c. 1925. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.]===
===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Arreoa-erakusten-Bidegoian-1957.jpg|Trousseau escorted by wedding entourage on their way to Izagirre Farmhouse. Bidegoian (G), 1957. Source: Martín Photographic Studio.]===
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===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Carro-de-boda-y-comitiva-nupcial-camino-del-caserio-Izagirre-Bidegoian-1957.jpg|Trousseau escorted by wedding entourage on their way to Izagirre Farmhouse. Bidegoian (G), 1957. Source: Martín Photographic Studio.]===
===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Arreoa-erakusten-Bidegoian-1957.jpg|Funeral procession entering church. Zerain (G), 1965. Source: Karmele Goñi, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.]===
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===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Segizioa-elizan-sartzen-Zerain-1965.jpg|Funeral procession entering church. Zerain (G), 1965. Source: Karmele Goñi, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.]===
 
===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Calabazas-para-el-ganado-Lezama-1990.jpg|Pumpkins for the livestock. Lezama (B), 1990. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.]===
 
===[ganaderia|Ganadería|/atlas/cabecera/Calabazas-para-el-ganado-Lezama-1990.jpg|Pumpkins for the livestock. Lezama (B), 1990. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.]===
  
 
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====[/atlas/juegos/Columpiandose.jpg|On a swing. Source: Arrien, Gregorio. Niños vascos evacuados en 1937. Bilbao, 1988.|Sirrin-sarran, <br />domini pan, <br />zure semea errotan, <br />errota txiki, <br />errota handi, <br />eragin deutso, <br />pin-pan.<br /><br />''Children’s chant''|]====
 
====[/atlas/juegos/Columpiandose.jpg|On a swing. Source: Arrien, Gregorio. Niños vascos evacuados en 1937. Bilbao, 1988.|Sirrin-sarran, <br />domini pan, <br />zure semea errotan, <br />errota txiki, <br />errota handi, <br />eragin deutso, <br />pin-pan.<br /><br />''Children’s chant''|]====
 
====[/atlas/juegos/A-tabas-Zeanuri-1993.jpg|Playing knucklebones. Zeanuri (B), 1993. Source: Ander Manterola, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Before glass, and even clay, marbles were introduced, they used parts of plants, including oak acorns and seed pits.|]====
 
====[/atlas/juegos/A-tabas-Zeanuri-1993.jpg|Playing knucklebones. Zeanuri (B), 1993. Source: Ander Manterola, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Before glass, and even clay, marbles were introduced, they used parts of plants, including oak acorns and seed pits.|]====
====[/atlas/juegos/Asto-astoka-Zeanuri-1920.jpg|Children from Zeanuri (B), 1913. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|''Txirringolan'' <br />
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====[/atlas/juegos/Zeanuriko_umetxoak_bat_txirrintolarekin_1913.png|Children from Zeanuri (B), 1913. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|''Txirringolan'' <br />
 
It consisted of rolling a metal or wooden hoop along using a wire rod with a hook at its end to steer or move it.|]====
 
It consisted of rolling a metal or wooden hoop along using a wire rod with a hook at its end to steer or move it.|]====
  
 
====[/atlas/juegos/A-chorro-morro.jpg|Leapfrog jumping. Source: Iñigo Irigoyen, José. Folklore Alavés. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Chartered Government of Álava, 1949.|''Astoka'' <br />One or more participants bend down in a position that is usually called a frog and the others jump over them.||]====
 
====[/atlas/juegos/A-chorro-morro.jpg|Leapfrog jumping. Source: Iñigo Irigoyen, José. Folklore Alavés. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Chartered Government of Álava, 1949.|''Astoka'' <br />One or more participants bend down in a position that is usually called a frog and the others jump over them.||]====
  
====[/atlas/juegos/A-chorro-morro.jpg|Vegetal clothing and accessories. Egozkue (N), 1967. Source: José Zufiaurre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Akerrak adarrak okerrak ditu, <br />adarrak okerrak akerrak ditu, <br />okerrak adarrak akerrak ditu. <br /><br />''Tongue-twister''||]====
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====[/atlas/juegos/Vestidos_y_adornos_vegetales_Egozkue_1967.png|Vegetal clothing and accessories. Egozkue (N), 1967. Source: José Zufiaurre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Akerrak adarrak okerrak ditu, <br />adarrak okerrak akerrak ditu, <br />okerrak adarrak akerrak ditu. <br /><br />''Tongue-twister''||]====
  
 
====[/atlas/juegos/A-enfermeras-Getxo-1993.jpg|Doctors and nurses. Getxo (B), 1993. Source: Jon Elorriaga, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Txikia banintzen, handia banintzen, maiatzerako burutu nintzen. <br />''Riddle''||]====
 
====[/atlas/juegos/A-enfermeras-Getxo-1993.jpg|Doctors and nurses. Getxo (B), 1993. Source: Jon Elorriaga, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Txikia banintzen, handia banintzen, maiatzerako burutu nintzen. <br />''Riddle''||]====
  
====[/atlas/juegos/A-chorro-morro.jpg|Group of children. Zeanuri (B), 1920. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|Children in the traditional society, both in towns and in countryside, only really had the toys that they made themselves. Games were more common than toys, and the latter were just a basis for the former.||]====
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====[/atlas/juegos/Umetxo-taldea_Zeanurin_aurrekoa_parrantolarekin_Zeanuri_1920.jpg|Group of children. Zeanuri (B), 1920. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|Children in the traditional society, both in towns and in countryside, only really had the toys that they made themselves. Games were more common than toys, and the latter were just a basis for the former.||]====
  
 
====[/atlas/juegos/Ninos-con-patinetes-y-triciclos-en-la-Florida.jpg|Children riding scooters and tricycles at Florida Park. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Ceferino Yanguas.|Humans play games throughout their lives; however, that activity has a clearly different role for children and adults.||]====
 
====[/atlas/juegos/Ninos-con-patinetes-y-triciclos-en-la-Florida.jpg|Children riding scooters and tricycles at Florida Park. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Ceferino Yanguas.|Humans play games throughout their lives; however, that activity has a clearly different role for children and adults.||]====
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====[/atlas/juegos/Asto-astoka-Zeanuri-1920.jpg|Leapfrog. Zeanuri (B), 1920. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|—Arre, arre, <br />mandako, bihar Tolosarako, <br />etzi Panplonarako. <br />—Handik zer ekarriko? <br />—Zapata ta garriko. <br /><br />''Children’s chant''||]====
 
====[/atlas/juegos/Asto-astoka-Zeanuri-1920.jpg|Leapfrog. Zeanuri (B), 1920. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|—Arre, arre, <br />mandako, bihar Tolosarako, <br />etzi Panplonarako. <br />—Handik zer ekarriko? <br />—Zapata ta garriko. <br /><br />''Children’s chant''||]====
  
====[/atlas/juegos/Jugando-al-corro-Larraul.jpg|Drawing of lots. Zeanuri (B), 1993. Source: Ander Manterola, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Txirristi-mirristi, gerrena, plat, <br />olio-zopa, kikili-salda, <br />urrup edan edo klik, <br />ikimilikiliklik. <br /><br />''Drawing lots chant''||]====
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====[/atlas/juegos/Zotzetara_Zeanuri_1993.jpg|Drawing of lots. Zeanuri (B), 1993. Source: Ander Manterola, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Txirristi-mirristi, gerrena, plat, <br />olio-zopa, kikili-salda, <br />urrup edan edo klik, <br />ikimilikiliklik. <br /><br />''Drawing lots chant''||]====
  
====[/atlas/juegos/Pin-pin-zarramacatin-Carranza-1993.jpg|Watching over the child. Source: Novedades. Donostia, 1914.|Obabatxua lo ta lo, <br />zuk orain eta nik gero; <br />zeuk gura dozun orduren baten, <br />biok egingo dogu lo ta lo. <br /><br />''Lullaby''||]====
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====[/atlas/juegos/Velando_el_sueno_1914.png|Watching over the child. Source: Novedades. Donostia, 1914.|Obabatxua lo ta lo, <br />zuk orain eta nik gero; <br />zeuk gura dozun orduren baten, <br />biok egingo dogu lo ta lo. <br /><br />''Lullaby''||]====
  
  
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====[/atlas/nacimiento/Entrada-en-el-templo-Getxo-1996.jpg|Bride’s entrance in church. Getxo (B), 1996. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive.|Ezkon urte, ero urte. <br />''People go crazy in the year they wed.''||]====
 
====[/atlas/nacimiento/Entrada-en-el-templo-Getxo-1996.jpg|Bride’s entrance in church. Getxo (B), 1996. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive.|Ezkon urte, ero urte. <br />''People go crazy in the year they wed.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/nacimiento/Mozas-en-el-paseo-Aoiz-1950.jpg|Offering to the departed. Donostia, 1958. Source: Segundo Oar-Arteta, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Ezkonberri, etxe berri. <br />''A married person wants a house.''||]====
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====[/atlas/nacimiento/Ofrenda-en-la-tumba-familiar-Donostia-1958.jpg|Offering to the departed. Donostia, 1958. Source: Segundo Oar-Arteta, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Ezkonberri, etxe berri. <br />''A married person wants a house.''||]====
  
 
====[/atlas/nacimiento/Urduliz-1984.jpg|Urduliz (B), 1984. Source: Akaitze Kamiruaga, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Haurrak negarrik ez, titirik ez. <br />''A baby who does not cry, does not suckle.''||]====
 
====[/atlas/nacimiento/Urduliz-1984.jpg|Urduliz (B), 1984. Source: Akaitze Kamiruaga, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Haurrak negarrik ez, titirik ez. <br />''A baby who does not cry, does not suckle.''||]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Portadores-del-feretro-jasotzaileak-Amezketa.jpg|Coffin bearers. Amezketa (G). Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Death was an event that usually occurred in the neighbourhood, a fact that meant the home of the deceased played a leading role.|]====
 
====[/atlas/ritos/Portadores-del-feretro-jasotzaileak-Amezketa.jpg|Coffin bearers. Amezketa (G). Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Death was an event that usually occurred in the neighbourhood, a fact that meant the home of the deceased played a leading role.|]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Adornando-las-sepulturas-para-el-dia-de-Todos-los-Santos-Bilbao-1990.jpg|Caring for the graves on the occasion of All Saints’ Day. Bilbao (B), 1990. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|Omens of death included those associated with strange behaviour by some domestic animals, mainly dogs and cockerels.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Adornando-las-sepulturas-para-el-dia-de-Todos-los-Santos-Bilbao-1990.jpg|Caring for the graves on the occasion of All Saints’ Day. Bilbao (B), 1990. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|Omens of death included those associated with strange behaviour by some domestic animals, mainly dogs and cockerels.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Santa-Grazi.jpg|Santa-Grazi (Z). Source: Boissel, W. Le Pays Basque. Sites, Arts et Coutumes. Paris, A. Calavas edit.|Cuando el cárabo canta, la muerte levanta. <br />''When the tawny owl hoots, death wakes up.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Santa-Grazi.jpg|Santa-Grazi (Z). Source: Boissel, W. Le Pays Basque. Sites, Arts et Coutumes. Paris, A. Calavas edit.|Cuando el cárabo canta, la muerte levanta. <br />''When the tawny owl hoots, death wakes up.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Sepulturas-en-la-nave-de-la-iglesia-Amezketa-1990.jpg|Symbolic graves in church. Amezketa (G), 1990. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Each homestead used to have a burial site inside the church’s nave. When burials were transferred to cemeteries, the once real burial site in church became a symbolic family grave, were offerings of light and bread were made to their dead.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Sepulturas-en-la-nave-de-la-iglesia-Amezketa-1990.jpg|Symbolic graves in church. Amezketa (G), 1990. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Each homestead used to have a burial site inside the church’s nave. When burials were transferred to cemeteries, the once real burial site in church became a symbolic family grave, were offerings of light and bread were made to their dead.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Toque-de-campana-anunciando-la-muerte-Beasain.jpg|Death knell. Beasain (G). Source: José Zufiaurre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Tolling the bell was a very effective way of announcing the death in rural settlements.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Toque-de-campana-anunciando-la-muerte-Beasain.jpg|Death knell. Beasain (G). Source: José Zufiaurre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Tolling the bell was a very effective way of announcing the death in rural settlements.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Cortejo-funebre-1925.jpg|Funeral cortège, c. 1925. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|There were specific paths to carry the corpse from the house of the deceased to the church and the cemetery.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Cortejo-funebre-1925.jpg|Funeral cortège, c. 1925. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|There were specific paths to carry the corpse from the house of the deceased to the church and the cemetery.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Mujeres-con-ofrendas-Otxagabia-1920.jpg|Offering bearers. Otsagabia (N), c. 1920. Source: Fco. Javier Zubiaur and M.ª Amor Beguiristain’s private archive: Roldán and Calle Photographic Studios.|The members of the funeral cortege, relatives of the deceased and neighbours alike, would usually carry offerings of bread and light.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Mujeres-con-ofrendas-Otxagabia-1920.jpg|Offering bearers. Otsagabia (N), c. 1920. Source: Fco. Javier Zubiaur and M.ª Amor Beguiristain’s private archive: Roldán and Calle Photographic Studios.|The members of the funeral cortege, relatives of the deceased and neighbours alike, would usually carry offerings of bread and light.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Ofrenda-de-luces-Amezketa.jpg|Light offerings. Amezketa (G). Source: Garmendia Larrañaga, Juan. Neguko Festak. Donostia, 1993, J. Juanes Photographic Archive.|Light offerings would light up the way for the soul of the deceased. And bread would sustain it.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Ofrenda-de-luces-Amezketa.jpg|Light offerings. Amezketa (G). Source: Garmendia Larrañaga, Juan. Neguko Festak. Donostia, 1993, J. Juanes Photographic Archive.|Light offerings would light up the way for the soul of the deceased. And bread would sustain it.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Duelo-femenino-Sara.jpg|Mourners. Sara (L). Source: Veyrin, Philippe. Pays Basques de France et d’Espagne. Paris-Grenoble, 1951.|Sorrow was expressed by wearing mourning.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Duelo-femenino-Sara.jpg|Mourners. Sara (L). Source: Veyrin, Philippe. Pays Basques de France et d’Espagne. Paris-Grenoble, 1951.|Sorrow was expressed by wearing mourning.||]====
  
 
====[/atlas/ritos/Anuncio-de-la-muerte-a-las-abejas.jpg|Telling the bees. Source: ''Gure Herria''.|Erletxuak, erletxuak, <br />egizute argizaria, <br />nagusia hil da-ta, <br />behar da elizan argia. <br /><br />
 
====[/atlas/ritos/Anuncio-de-la-muerte-a-las-abejas.jpg|Telling the bees. Source: ''Gure Herria''.|Erletxuak, erletxuak, <br />egizute argizaria, <br />nagusia hil da-ta, <br />behar da elizan argia. <br /><br />
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====[/atlas/ritos/Amortajamiento-de-un-nino-Durango.jpg|Infant shroud. Durango (B). Source: Gerediaga Association Archive: Germán Photographic Studio.|Jaiotzetik heriotza zor. <br />''When you begin to live, you being to die.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Amortajamiento-de-un-nino-Durango.jpg|Infant shroud. Durango (B). Source: Gerediaga Association Archive: Germán Photographic Studio.|Jaiotzetik heriotza zor. <br />''When you begin to live, you being to die.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Pipaon-1990.jpg|Pipaón (A), 1990. Source: Pilar Alonso, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Hildakoari hobia eta biziari ogia. <br />''The dead to the grave and the living to the roll.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ritos/Pipaon-1990.jpg|Pipaón (A), 1990. Source: Pilar Alonso, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Hildakoari hobia eta biziari ogia. <br />''The dead to the grave and the living to the roll.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/ritos/Hilarriak-Irulegi.jpg|Funerary stelae. Irulegi (NB). Source: Michel Duvert, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Oilarrak gauez kukurruku jotzen badu, laster izango da gorpuren bat etxe hartan. <br />''A cockerel crowing at sunset, death is looming.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastando-en-Eneabe-Zeanuri-1996.jpg|Grazing in Eneabe. Zeanuri (B), 1996. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|Two millennia ago Pliny distinguished Vasconum saltus, humid and wooded, from Vasconum ager, with its grain fields and vineyards. That distinction still remains today, with regard to livestock farming.|]====
 
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastando-en-Eneabe-Zeanuri-1996.jpg|Grazing in Eneabe. Zeanuri (B), 1996. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|Two millennia ago Pliny distinguished Vasconum saltus, humid and wooded, from Vasconum ager, with its grain fields and vineyards. That distinction still remains today, with regard to livestock farming.|]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastor-de-Lanciego-subiendo-a-Tolono-1996.jpg|Shepherd from Lanciego (A) on the climb to Toloño, 1996. Source: José Ángel Chasco, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|The Mediterranean watershed of the Basque Country was, and to a large extent is, characterized by the importance of the commons, the communal character of their exploitation by associations and brotherhoods comprising multiple municipalities still persisting today.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastor-de-Lanciego-subiendo-a-Tolono-1996.jpg|Shepherd from Lanciego (A) on the climb to Toloño, 1996. Source: José Ángel Chasco, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|The Mediterranean watershed of the Basque Country was, and to a large extent is, characterized by the importance of the commons, the communal character of their exploitation by associations and brotherhoods comprising multiple municipalities still persisting today.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Establo-de-ovejas-moderno-Izurtza-2000.jpg|Modern stable for sheep. Izurtza (B), 2000. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|The transformations that have taken place in the last few decades have fundamentally changed the world of livestock farming: no longer a way of life, it is now an economic activity.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Establo-de-ovejas-moderno-Izurtza-2000.jpg|Modern stable for sheep. Izurtza (B), 2000. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|The transformations that have taken place in the last few decades have fundamentally changed the world of livestock farming: no longer a way of life, it is now an economic activity.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Oveja-negra-en-el-rebano-Meaga-Getaria.jpg|Black sheep in the flock. Meaga, Getaria (G). Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|A black animal, and particularly a billy goat, was considered to protect the herd, flock or barn throughout the area surveyed.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Oveja-negra-en-el-rebano-Meaga-Getaria.jpg|Black sheep in the flock. Meaga, Getaria (G). Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|A black animal, and particularly a billy goat, was considered to protect the herd, flock or barn throughout the area surveyed.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Cabras-con-cencerros-Anboto-1999.jpg|Goats wearing bells. Anboto (B), 1999. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|Cowbells, in the same way as chimes, have been attributed with the power to protect the livestock from spells. Their use to protect against the evil eye, begizkoa, was very widespread in the past.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Cabras-con-cencerros-Anboto-1999.jpg|Goats wearing bells. Anboto (B), 1999. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: José Ignacio García Muñoz.|Cowbells, in the same way as chimes, have been attributed with the power to protect the livestock from spells. Their use to protect against the evil eye, begizkoa, was very widespread in the past.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastor-con-kapusai-Eriete-1959.jpg|Shepherd wearing a cape. Eriete (N), 1959. Source: Archive of the Museum of Navarre: Nicolás Ardanaz Collection.|Nolako artzaina, halako artaldea. <br />''Every animal ends up looking like their master.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastor-con-kapusai-Eriete-1959.jpg|Shepherd wearing a cape. Eriete (N), 1959. Source: Archive of the Museum of Navarre: Nicolás Ardanaz Collection.|Nolako artzaina, halako artaldea. <br />''Every animal ends up looking like their master.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Bendicion-del-rebano-antes-de-la-partida.jpg|Blessing of the flock before departure. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Artaldearentzat artzain guti hobe ainitz baino. <br />''Too many cooks spoil the broth.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Bendicion-del-rebano-antes-de-la-partida.jpg|Blessing of the flock before departure. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Artaldearentzat artzain guti hobe ainitz baino. <br />''Too many cooks spoil the broth.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Esquilando-ovejas-por-el-sistema-tradicional-Carranza-1998.jpg|Traditional sheep shearing. Carranza (B), 1998. Source: Miguel Sabino Díaz, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Grullas p’arriba, pastor buena vida, <br />Grullas p’abajo, pastor más trabajo.<br /><br />''When cranes fly north, life is easier for shepherds, <br />when they fly south, work is harder for shepherds.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Esquilando-ovejas-por-el-sistema-tradicional-Carranza-1998.jpg|Traditional sheep shearing. Carranza (B), 1998. Source: Miguel Sabino Díaz, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Grullas p’arriba, pastor buena vida, <br />Grullas p’abajo, pastor más trabajo.<br /><br />''When cranes fly north, life is easier for shepherds, <br />when they fly south, work is harder for shepherds.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Subida-al-monte-Aia-1998.jpg|Climb to the mountain. Aia (G), 1998. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|At the end of the Middle Ages, flocks in the Basque valleys converged on the same mountains that are now the main summer grassland used for grazing.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Subida-al-monte-Aia-1998.jpg|Climb to the mountain. Aia (G), 1998. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|At the end of the Middle Ages, flocks in the Basque valleys converged on the same mountains that are now the main summer grassland used for grazing.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Dolmen-de-Gaxteenia-Mendibe-1980.jpg|Dolmen of Gaxteenia. Mendibe (NB), 1980. Source: Blot, Jacques. Artzainak. Les bergers basques. Los pastores vascos. Donostia: Elkar, 1984.|“The axial zone of the Basque Pyrenees retains underneath a maze of folds traits of a time-honoured culture.” <br />''J. M. Barandiaran''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Dolmen-de-Gaxteenia-Mendibe-1980.jpg|Dolmen of Gaxteenia. Mendibe (NB), 1980. Source: Blot, Jacques. Artzainak. Les bergers basques. Los pastores vascos. Donostia: Elkar, 1984.|“The axial zone of the Basque Pyrenees retains underneath a maze of folds traits of a time-honoured culture.” <br />''J. M. Barandiaran''||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastos-en-Carranza-2009.jpg|Grassy pastures in Carranza (B), 2009. Source: Luis Manuel Peña, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|The priority of the right of herds to cross arable land is expressed in the sentence: ''soroak zor dio larreari'' ‘arable land is indebted to grassland’.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastos-en-Carranza-2009.jpg|Grassy pastures in Carranza (B), 2009. Source: Luis Manuel Peña, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|The priority of the right of herds to cross arable land is expressed in the sentence: ''soroak zor dio larreari'' ‘arable land is indebted to grassland’.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Vacas-en-prados-comunales-Carranza-2007.jpg|Cattle on common pastures. Carranza (B), 2007. Source: Luis Manuel Peña, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Communities in areas where livestock has been the fundamental basis of their way of life consider Saint Anthony Abbot as the main protector of the health and fertility of the animals.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Vacas-en-prados-comunales-Carranza-2007.jpg|Cattle on common pastures. Carranza (B), 2007. Source: Luis Manuel Peña, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Communities in areas where livestock has been the fundamental basis of their way of life consider Saint Anthony Abbot as the main protector of the health and fertility of the animals.||]====
  
====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastor-y-espaldero-Canada-de-los-Roncaleses-1996.jpg|Herder and dog. Droveway of the Roncalese (N), 1996. Source: Iñaki San Miguel, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|The introduction of sheepdogs meant they replaced the zagales, young children who had been in charge of herding the flock up to then.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/ganaderia/Pastor-y-espaldero-Canada-de-los-Roncaleses-1996.jpg|Herder and dog. Droveway of the Roncalese (N), 1996. Source: Iñaki San Miguel, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|The introduction of sheepdogs meant they replaced the zagales, young children who had been in charge of herding the flock up to then.||]====
  
  
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====[ Agricultura_en_vasconia | Agriculture in the Basque Country]====
 
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Andreak-asto-gainean-astotzarekin.jpg|Milk-women. Source: Ecclesiastical Historical Archive of Bizkaia: Sanctuary of Urkiola Collection.|Our rural folk and our ancestors knew and practised agriculture on a more human scale and from a more holistic approach; it is not only the yield that matters, but also the complex network of physical factors and human beings involved in an activity that is actually based on cultivating the life that feeds us.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Andreak-asto-gainean-astotzarekin.jpg|Milk-women. Source: Ecclesiastical Historical Archive of Bizkaia: Sanctuary of Urkiola Collection.|Our rural folk and our ancestors knew and practised agriculture on a more human scale and from a more holistic approach; it is not only the yield that matters, but also the complex network of physical factors and human beings involved in an activity that is actually based on cultivating the life that feeds us.||]====
====[/atlas/agricultura/Acarreando-hierba-verde-Carranza-1977.jpg|Grass hauling. Carranza (B), 1977. Source: Miguel Sabino Díaz, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|That [traditional agricultural] knowledge came from the deep-rooted bond established with the land. Self-sufficiency entailed deep respect for the land, as their very livelihood depended on it.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Acarreando-hierba-verde-Carranza-1977.jpg|Grass hauling. Carranza (B), 1977. Source: Miguel Sabino Díaz, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|That [traditional agricultural] knowledge came from the deep-rooted bond established with the land. Self-sufficiency entailed deep respect for the land, as their very livelihood depended on it.||]====
====[/atlas/agricultura/Vinedo-de-Obanos-2011.jpg|Vineyard in Obanos (N), 2011. Source: M.ª Amor Beguiristain, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Tente nublo, tente en ti,<br />no te caigas sobre mí,<br />guarda el pan, guarda el vino,<br />guarda los campos que están floridos.<br />''Spell against hail''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Vinedo-de-Obanos-2011.jpg|Vineyard in Obanos (N), 2011. Source: M.ª Amor Beguiristain, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Tente nublo, tente en ti,<br />no te caigas sobre mí,<br />guarda el pan, guarda el vino,<br />guarda los campos que están floridos.<br />''Spell against hail''||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Siega-de-trigo-Gesaltza-1950.jpg|Wheat harvest. Gesaltza (G), c. 1950. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Satsitu ta jorratu ta garia hartu. <br />''Spreading manure and weeding and harvesting wheat.''||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Desgranando-semilla-Zerain-1961.jpg|Seed threshing. Zerain (G), 1961. Source: Karmele Goñi, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Selecting seeds has always been a fundamental activity. The best seeds were chosen from each harvest, and they were then stored and used for the next sowing season.||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Laietan-Zeanurin-1920.jpg|Spading. Zeanuri (B), 1920. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|Spades, ploughs, rakes, sickles, scythes and threshers were the essential tools for agricultural work.||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Acarreo-de-los-haces-de-trigo-1940.jpg|Haulage of wheat sheaves. Álava, c. 1940. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Both animal and human power had a decisive impact on the way of working and on the crops until the introduction of modern machinery.||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Recoleccion-de-oliva-a-ordeno-Moreda-2015.jpg|Milking of olive trees. Moreda (A), 2015. Source: José Ángel Chasco, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Uzta garaian lokartzen, miserian iratzartzen. <br />''Anyone who sleeps at harvest time wakes up destitute.''||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Utillaje-para-trabajar-el-lino-Zeanuri-1931.jpg|Implements for linen making. Zeanuri (B), 1931. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|Linoaren atsekabeak, amaigabeak. <br />''Producing fine linen is hard work.''||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Maizal.-Carranza--2016.jpg|Maize field. Carranza (B), 2016. Source: Luis Manuel Peña, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|San Jurgi, artoak ereiteko goizegi; San Markos, artoak ereinda balegoz. <br />''St George’s Day is too early to sow maize and St Mark’s Day is too late.''||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Trilladora-y-costales-de-trigo-Navarra-1960.jpg|Wheat being threshed and sacked. Navarre, c. 1960. Source: Archive of the Museum of Navarre: Nicolás Ardanaz Collection.|Maiatz luzea, gosea; garagarrilak ekarriko du asea. <br />''A very wet May, much straw and little grain.''||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Vecinos-trabajando-en-las-eras-Alegria-Dulantzi-1940.jpg|Neighbours on the threshing plots. Alegría-Dulantzi (A), c. 1940. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Elur asko den urtean, garia; eta erle asko dugunean, eztia. <br />''A year of snow, a year of plenty.''||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Sembrando-patata-a-azada-Abadino-2009.jpg|Sowing potato with a hoe. Abadiño (B), 2009. Source: Rosa M.ª Ardanza, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Flax fields and market gardens were the areas of the farm that required the greatest care, the pride of the farmer’s property and a cornerstone of the family’s wealth.||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Molino-de-Carranza-1977.jpg|Mill in Carranza (B), 1977. Source: Miguel Sabino Díaz, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Until the 1950s, flour mills were an essential aspect of the livestock-farming economy of our villages.||]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Descargando-el-grano-en-el-remolque-Argandona-2003.jpg|Unloading grain into the trailer. Argandoña (A), 2003. Source: Juan José Galdos, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Ezkur urte, laborte urte. <br />''Acorns a plenty, a year of prosperity.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Siega-de-trigo-Gesaltza-1950.jpg|Wheat harvest. Gesaltza (G), c. 1950. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Satsitu ta jorratu ta garia hartu. <br />''Spreading manure and weeding and harvesting wheat.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Siega-de-trigo-Gesaltza-1950.jpg|Wheat harvest. Gesaltza (G), c. 1950. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Satsitu ta jorratu ta garia hartu. <br />''Spreading manure and weeding and harvesting wheat.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Desgranando-semilla-Zerain-1961.jpg|Seed threshing. Zerain (G), 1961. Source: Karmele Goñi, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Selecting seeds has always been a fundamental activity. The best seeds were chosen from each harvest, and they were then stored and used for the next sowing season.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Desgranando-semilla-Zerain-1961.jpg|Seed threshing. Zerain (G), 1961. Source: Karmele Goñi, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Selecting seeds has always been a fundamental activity. The best seeds were chosen from each harvest, and they were then stored and used for the next sowing season.||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Laietan-Zeanurin-1920.jpg|Spading. Zeanuri (B), 1920. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|Spades, ploughs, rakes, sickles, scythes and threshers were the essential tools for agricultural work.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Laietan-Zeanurin-1920.jpg|Spading. Zeanuri (B), 1920. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|Spades, ploughs, rakes, sickles, scythes and threshers were the essential tools for agricultural work.||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Acarreo-de-los-haces-de-trigo-1940.jpg|Haulage of wheat sheaves. Álava, c. 1940. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Both animal and human power had a decisive impact on the way of working and on the crops until the introduction of modern machinery.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Acarreo-de-los-haces-de-trigo-1940.jpg|Haulage of wheat sheaves. Álava, c. 1940. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Both animal and human power had a decisive impact on the way of working and on the crops until the introduction of modern machinery.||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Recoleccion-de-oliva-a-ordeno-Moreda-2015.jpg|Milking of olive trees. Moreda (A), 2015. Source: José Ángel Chasco, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Uzta garaian lokartzen, miserian iratzartzen. <br />''Anyone who sleeps at harvest time wakes up destitute.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Recoleccion-de-oliva-a-ordeno-Moreda-2015.jpg|Milking of olive trees. Moreda (A), 2015. Source: José Ángel Chasco, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Uzta garaian lokartzen, miserian iratzartzen. <br />''Anyone who sleeps at harvest time wakes up destitute.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Utillaje-para-trabajar-el-lino-Zeanuri-1931.jpg|Implements for linen making. Zeanuri (B), 1931. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|Linoaren atsekabeak, amaigabeak. <br />''Producing fine linen is hard work.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Utillaje-para-trabajar-el-lino-Zeanuri-1931.jpg|Implements for linen making. Zeanuri (B), 1931. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.|Linoaren atsekabeak, amaigabeak. <br />''Producing fine linen is hard work.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Maizal.-Carranza--2016.jpg|Maize field. Carranza (B), 2016. Source: Luis Manuel Peña, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|San Jurgi, artoak ereiteko goizegi; San Markos, artoak ereinda balegoz. <br />''St George’s Day is too early to sow maize and St Mark’s Day is too late.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Trilladora-y-costales-de-trigo-Navarra-1960.jpg|Wheat being threshed and sacked. Navarre, c. 1960. Source: Archive of the Museum of Navarre: Nicolás Ardanaz Collection.|Maiatz luzea, gosea; garagarrilak ekarriko du asea. <br />''A very wet May, much straw and little grain.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Trilladora-y-costales-de-trigo-Navarra-1960.jpg|Wheat being threshed and sacked. Navarre, c. 1960. Source: Archive of the Museum of Navarre: Nicolás Ardanaz Collection.|Maiatz luzea, gosea; garagarrilak ekarriko du asea. <br />''A very wet May, much straw and little grain.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Vecinos-trabajando-en-las-eras-Alegria-Dulantzi-1940.jpg|Neighbours on the threshing plots. Alegría-Dulantzi (A), c. 1940. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Elur asko den urtean, garia; eta erle asko dugunean, eztia. <br />''A year of snow, a year of plenty.''||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Vecinos-trabajando-en-las-eras-Alegria-Dulantzi-1940.jpg|Neighbours on the threshing plots. Alegría-Dulantzi (A), c. 1940. Source: Municipal Archive of Vitoria-Gasteiz: Enrique Guinea Collection.|Elur asko den urtean, garia; eta erle asko dugunean, eztia. <br />''A year of snow, a year of plenty.''||]====
  
====[/atlas/agricultura/Sembrando-patata-a-azada-Abadino-2009.jpg|Sowing potato with a hoe. Abadiño (B), 2009. Source: Rosa M.ª Ardanza, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Flax fields and market gardens were the areas of the farm that required the greatest care, the pride of the farmer’s property and a cornerstone of the family’s wealth.||ENLACE]====
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====[/atlas/agricultura/Molino-de-Carranza-1977.jpg|Mill in Carranza (B), 1977. Source: Miguel Sabino Díaz, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.|Until the 1950s, flour mills were an essential aspect of the livestock-farming economy of our villages.||ENLACE]====
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Mutual cooperation. Zeanuri (B), c. 1915. Source: Labayru Fundazioa Photograhic Archive: Felipe Manterola Collection.
House and Family in the Basque Country

House and Family in the Basque Country

The rural farmstead was an institution made up of the building, its land, its dwellings and by tradition, in other words, by that web of relations that closely links the current generation with past ones.
Family Diet in the Basque Country

Family Diet in the Basque Country

Aza-olioak pil-pil, bisigua zirt-zart, gaztaina erreak pin-pan, ahia goxo-goxo, epel-epel. Traditional Christmas song
Christmas market. Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1977. Source: Fernando Díaz de Corcuera, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.
Vegetal clothing and accessories. Egozkue (N), 1967. Source: José Zufiaurre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.
Children’s Games in the Basque Country

Children’s Games in the Basque Country

Akerrak adarrak okerrak ditu, adarrak okerrak akerrak ditu, okerrak adarrak akerrak ditu. Tongue-twister
Traditional Medicine in the Basque Country

Traditional Medicine in the Basque Country

Kirkila bat eta kirkila bi, kirkilak dira hamabi: hamabitik hamaikara, hamaikatik hamarrera, hamarretik bederatzira, bederatzitik zortzira, zortzitik zazpira, zazpitik seira, seitik bostera, bostetik laura, lautik hirura, hirutik bira, bitik batera, batetik bapezera. Formula for scrofula treatment
Laurel. Source: Luis Manuel Peña, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.
Baptism. Bilbao. Source: Edurne Romarate, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.
Rites from Birth to Marriage in the Basque Country

Rites from Birth to Marriage in the Basque Country

After giving birth, women would remain confined for a period that ended with the rite of being churched, elizan sartzea.
Funeral Rites in the Basque Country

Funeral Rites in the Basque Country

There were specific paths to carry the corpse from the house of the deceased to the church and the cemetery.
Funeral cortège, c. 1925. Source: Antxon Aguirre, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.
Dark-faced latxa sheep. Abadiño (B). Source: Rosa M.ª Ardanza, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.
Livestock Farming and Shepherding in the Basque Country

Livestock Farming and Shepherding in the Basque Country

The permanence of shepherding in the mountains of the Basque Country over centuries may help understand the fact that denominations given to diverse species of livestock, as well as to the implements used, form a distinguishing lexical corpus, independent from Indoeuropean languages.
Agriculture in the Basque Country

Agriculture in the Basque Country

Flax fields and market gardens were the areas of the farm that required the greatest care, the pride of the farmer’s property and a cornerstone of the family’s wealth.
Sowing potato with a hoe. Abadiño (B), 2009. Source: Rosa M.ª Ardanza, Etniker Euskalerria Groups.