The ethnographic collection of the Mravlinčić family is located in Šinkovica Šaška, in the immediate vicinity of Trakošćan, and contain items used in households in the first half of the 20th century. The majority of exhibits belonged to the family itself, while the rest they have been collecting since the beginning of 1970-ties to this day. The collection, which comprises items of clothing, dishes, furniture, tools, machines and other items – all together some 80 exhibits, is housed in an authentic setting of a family house built at the end of the 20ties of the last century.
Some of the exhibits from the ethnographic collection of the Mravlinčić family:
Kolovrat - it was used to make thread; thread (preja) was made from hemp and it was used to make canvas on a loom; later people used cotton thread to get softer canvas.
Dish
Štubljek - it was used for curdling of milk
Štuca - it was used for apple vinegar storage; to get the vinegar faster people would pour it from octenka (a wooden barrel for souring) and put it on a stove.
Cimplet- it was used for yeast dough baking; you would get a specially shaped cake filled with nuts or cheese; godmother would bake it and wear it on a head in a braided basket for child baptism.
Kuhač - it was used to cook food on a batch
Fruklja - a metal frame fitted on a longer pole used for putting a pot in the oven
Jounjka - rubeća- everyday woman´s clothes; the upper part (oplečak) was put over the blouse (reklec) and women would put apron (šurc) at front part of the jounjka.
Škrinja - decorated chest used to storage festive clothes; every girl had to have it as a dowry; this decorated chest belonged to great- aunt born in 1900.- she was never married.
Zobernjaki - they were put on both sides of a towel; when a dowry was brought from a bride to a bridegroom zobernjaki were in a decorated chest; zobernjaki were used to protect the decorated chest from neighbours who would gather at bridegroom´s place- groomsman would beat anyone who would get closer to the chest.
Bajs - contrabass
Gusle - violin
Špampet- a bed made in 1930, covered with sheet (prejnata hadra)and decorated with handmade lace (špice); mattress (strožek) was filled with corn-cob (bjelinje).
Rubeće - there are all kinds of them; they were folded and women wore it when going shopping or visiting friends or family; apron (šurc) was made of a black textile called glot.
Gunjak - a very expensive blanket (vunen gunjec) for women worn in winter; women would wore it on a head, turned around the armpits and tied on a back or simply turned over the arms.
Mešno opravinje - festive clothes
Krunaš - expensive head scarf bought for 1 kruna (kruna= krunaš)
Šurc - apron made of silk
Rubeće - made of chiffon
Rukavci - handmade cotton shirt
Pojas - belt used to point out slim waist
Tunjica - it was used to make butter from cow milk cream
Mužar - it was used to chop up nuts, barley, buckwheat porridge etc.
Žrvi - grindstone used to grind grain; people would hold a pool (pomeljaj) in a right hand and used it to move grinstone; there was a little wooden dish (pint) in a left corner which was used to pour the grain in a hole in the grinstone (žabica) and in such a way they were able to move the grindstone and pour the grain at a same time. A lever in a lower central part of the grinstone would regulate the quality of a flour- lifting made rough flour and lowering fine flour. Fine flour near the grindstone was called meljek.
Banjica- it was used to store fat
Lopar - it was used to put cake (gibanica) in an oven; people would sprinkle cornflour over lopar to make the cake go down easily into the oven; then they would put dough (mlinac) on lopar and add stuffing made of pumpkin and cheese; they would fold the edges of dough over the stuffing.
Lopata - it was used to put hljeb and štruklji into an oven; greblica was used to pull the bread and cake from the oven and to position live coals in the oven.
Greban, mikalo - people used it to take off splinters (pezderje) from a hemp; it was put on a ridge of a straw roof (škopnati krov) to protect the straw from a rain.
Podšpriklja - tools for thatch used to level a straw