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1951_Marg_E_1_R -    Note: 31

Page: 16-17
Date: 11/11/51
Location: Elba Nahiye
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General Economics.

Arts and Crafts.

Wife of one of visiting sanaat teachers. Husband teaches carpentry.

Furnishings, covers, draperies hand-sewn and embroidered by Zeynep as part of her ceiz - striking similarity to that of Onba's daughter (for more detailed
description - see 1. p. 5).

Husband employed by Kayseri Vilyet, Maarif Mdrl {Directorate of Ed.} - is sent out in the winter to a different village to give a 7 mths. course in carpentry.
Takes boys in their teens. One winter in Mancusun { vlg near Kayseri, Sivas road}, next year at Sariolan} (a nahiye 60 kilometres away), last year at:
Zincidere {above Talas}. Boys learn to make wheelbarrows, babies' cradles, racks, boxes, trunks, tables, chairs, etc.

k<embroidery, ceiz, carpentry teacher, 7 month courses in villages}
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