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Photo, Print, Drawing Wedding and reception for Mitriann Popovich and Carl Oreskovich, Holy Trinity Orthodox Christian Church (Serbian), Butte, Montana

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About this Item

Title

  • Wedding and reception for Mitriann Popovich and Carl Oreskovich, Holy Trinity Orthodox Christian Church (Serbian), Butte, Montana

Names

  • Stanton, Gary Ward, 1946- (Collector)
  • Johnson, Paula J., 1954- (Collector)
  • Toelken, Barre, 1935- (Collector)
  • Johnson, Paula J., 1954- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Butte, Montana, September 1, 1979

Headings

  • -  Marriage customs and rites
  • -  Food habits
  • -  Serbian Americans
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- Montana -- Butte

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Index data: Image numbers, descriptions: at the wedding of Mitriann Popovich and Carl Oreskovich at the Holy Trinity Orthodox Christian Church (Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate), Butte MT: 1, entrance of' bridesmaids at the beginning of the ceremony; 2, participants awaits entrance of the bride; 3-5 Rev. Dositei Obradovich conducting the traditional ceremony; 6, placing the crown on the groom's head; 7-8, ceremonial walk, the bride and groom, with wrists tied together with a white cloth, walk around the altar three times, the photographer's notes state that "the priest leads them around the table on which are placed the gospel and the cross, the one containing the word of God, the other being the symbol of redemption by Jesus, the husband and wife are taking their first steps as a married couple, and the church, in the person of the priest, leads them in the way they must walk, they are followed by the 'Kum,' Mark MacDonald, and 'Kuma,' Paula Popovich, Kum and Kuma are something akin to godparents"; at the wedding reception for Mitriann Popovich and Carl Oreskovich at the Parish Center for the Holy Trinity Orthodox Christian Church (Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate): 9-10, the food table with fountain and view into the kitchen; 11, salads on food table; 12-13, chaude-froid chicken and candle, the photographer's notes state that this is not a Serbian tradition; 14, ham; 15-16, food table, basket of bread; 17, guests at food table; 18-19, view of Parish Center and guests from food table looking toward bandstand, decorated by American and Yugoslav flags; 20, Rev. Obradovich blesses the meal.

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/005: MT9-PJ40

Source Collection

  • Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Stanton, Gary Ward, Paula J Johnson, Barre Toelken, and Paula J Johnson. Wedding and reception for Mitriann Popovich and Carl Oreskovich, Holy Trinity Orthodox Christian Church Serbian, Butte, Montana. United States Butte Montana, 1979. Butte, Montana, September 1. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1981005_pj40/.

APA citation style:

Stanton, G. W., Johnson, P. J., Toelken, B. & Johnson, P. J. (1979) Wedding and reception for Mitriann Popovich and Carl Oreskovich, Holy Trinity Orthodox Christian Church Serbian, Butte, Montana. United States Butte Montana, 1979. Butte, Montana, September 1. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1981005_pj40/.

MLA citation style:

Stanton, Gary Ward, et al. Wedding and reception for Mitriann Popovich and Carl Oreskovich, Holy Trinity Orthodox Christian Church Serbian, Butte, Montana. Butte, Montana, September 1. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/afc1981005_pj40/>.