Henryk \u015awi\u0105tkowski (1909-1999) was a well-known teacher, museologist and ethnographer. It was his son \u2013 Tomasz (film director)\u2013 who has brought his father\u2019s 12 cassetes with recordings from \u0141owicz to our attention. Recordings were a valuable addition to many phonogram recordings from this Mazovia subregion, gathered i.e. in the Institute of Art\u2019 Phonogramm Collection. \u015awi\u0105tkowski\u2019s recordings were made in the 70s, when he was a head of \u0141owicz Museum. The repertoire, performed by traditional singers and instrumentalists \u2013 comes from famous \u0141owicz ethnographic region ( i.a. from Skaratki, Maurzyce, \u0141owicz).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the performers we found many people, who were also informants during numerous field works in \u0141owickie district, conducted by Henryk \u015awi\u0105tkowski and his wife Anna. Those people were folk artists \u2013 versatile, often not only singers and musicians, but also paper-cutters, embroiderers, sculptors. Sadly, it\u2019s impossible to make a profound and detailed description of the collection, due to lack of the detailed documentation, though the work is still in progress. The collection also includes recordings from the 70s during Young Artists\u2019 International Week in \u0141owicz as well as copies of radio broadcast featuring Henryk \u015awi\u0105tkowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The archival collection has been digitalized by Maria-Szyma\u0144ska-Ilnata within the Polish folk music \u2013 phonographic heritage <\/em>project, and is still being explored, identified and descripted.<\/p>\n\n\n