The objects in this exhibition have been given to us by residents of Luzaide/Valcarlos. For many years, these objects were used in the village’s houses, and they were now being kept on the roof terraces of those houses.
So Luzaide/Valcarlos is grateful to everyone who has helped us by providing us with ethnographic objects and information about them.
For a long time, kitchen tasks have been the responsibility of women. This diorama therefore aims to remember and pay tribute to all the women who have worked and looked after this very special space in the home for countless years. And, of course, to the many women who continue to do so today.
We would also like to acknowledge the work of the Aranzadi Society of Science, which organised the 2018 Course on Cultural & Ethnographical Anthropology to collect and interpret the material being displayed here.. It also benefited from the invaluable assistance of Fermín Leizaola, an ethnographer specialising in material heritage and director of the Ethnography Department at the Aranzadi Science Society.
Cover of the programme announcing the course.
Author: Aranzadi Science Society
Waxing a box. Author: Suberri Matelo Mitxelena. 
A student on the course receives explanations about the object from a resident of Luzaide. Author: Suberri Matelo Mitxelena. 
Receiving instructions from Fermín Leizaola on how to fill in the forms. Author: Suberri Matelo Mitxelena. 
Students on the course and some of the tools collected.
Author: Suberri Matelo Mitxelena.
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