Roma, Poland: Horsecart. How to tell Roma from the poorest of peasants. Our understanding is that Polish peasants are better off, and do not need the horsecart. Is that so?Horsecarts do not necessarily mean Roma - and we saw few horsecarts on the roads, compared to Romania where they were the rule, nearly none here even on back roads. alone means economic resources, probably. An outsider does not know what to look for.
Horsecarts are mentioned in Zoli, p 75, and as her transportation from time to time, and this is one, in Poland, near Zakopane, by the High Tatra mountains that border with Slovakia. Horsecarts are small.
The wagons are large, flat or with open slanted sides. The wagon picture is from Romania. I do not know if the man is Gypsy or not.
Roma, Romania: Horsecart. Or a Romanian peasant, not Roma? Not clear.Zoli - book refers to a "Big Halt" law that stopped the nomadic travel some years ago, forcing settlements. Zoli at ____.
See this fine photograph of a caravan in 1911 - at ://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/tradition.htm
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