DUMBRĂVENI Household, 19th CENTURY, Jud. Suceava
Dumbrăveni village is located at the contact between the Plateau Sucevei and the Lunca Siretului. The settlement formed in the fifteenth century is of the type gathered, with a higher concentration of households along the main road.
Built at the end of the 19th century and transferred to the museum in 1961, the house of the village Nicolae Biciușcă presents a peculiarity in the construction system: the walls are made up of pillars stuck in the ground, connected with three straps on which the vertically arranged, stuck with clay. The four slopes roof has the rye straw cover, placed in the technique of the "jips" (snakes). In the edges, the snopes are put in steps, and two by two are braided in the mane.
In the plane of the house are entered: "clean room" without heating system, only occasionally inhabited, the median tent and the living room where the family carried out its entire activity around the fire oven that occupies half of space. The oven played a double role, being both the place where the food was prepared and the place where you could sleep.
Among the pieces of furniture present in the house are noted the boxes of painted dowry, placed at the end of the two beds. The interior decor is complemented by the peak adorned with port pieces, by the hemp and wool fabrics, by the wipes ornamented with stylized geometric and floral motifs. The general tone of the colors of the fabrics in the shades of the autumn leaves (yellow-orange and light brown) is a peculiarity of the place.
