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The book ‘Lietuvos kryždirbystės vaizdai: Adomo Varno negatyvų kolekcjia. Sudarytoja Skaidrė Urbonienė’. Lietuvos nacionalinis muziejus 2023 (Images of Lithuanian Cross-Crafting: a collection of negatives by Adam Varnas. Compiled by Skaidrė Urbonienė. Lithuanian National Museum 2023), was published as part of a project by the Lithuanian National Museum dedicated to the release of photographic documentation as a valuable resource for researching Lithuanian history and culture.

This book contains the complete collection of 1.968 known photographic material of Lithuanian folk crosses taken by Adomas Varnas and his collaborators in the first three decades of the 20th century. The material is held in the archives of the Lithuanian National Museum in Vilnius and the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum in Kaunas. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains an academic introduction, which was prepared by Dr Skaidrė Urbonienė from the Lithuanian National Museum in Vilnius, along with museologists from the two museums where the negatives are located. This introduction is based on the available archival materials. The second part of the book, entitled ‘Catalog’, contains photographs from the collection, which are divided into the four ethnographic regions of Lithuania: Aukštaitija, Dzūkija (Dainava), Suvalkija (Sūduva) and Samogitia (Žemaitija).