Ukrainian Christmas Tree Included in Smithsonian Display

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Ukrainian Christmas tree has been included in a Yuletide display at the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology.

The tree is among seven examples of Christmas around the world to be included in the exhibit, along with five from America.

The Ukrainian tree is enmeshed in a shimmering web of glittering wire enlived by sparkling spiders. It is based on an ancient Ukrainian Christmas tale about a poor old woman who could not afford ornaments for her tree, but woke on Christmas morning to find the spiders' webs turned into silver.

"The small, disarming exhibition of a dozen trees, surrounding a gargantuan marble statue of a classically half-clad George Washington has a gentle and imaginative charm that is neither folksy or trendy," wrote Linda Charlton of The New York Times about the exhibit in the paper's Saturday, December 24th edition.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 31, 1977, No. 289, Vol. LXXXIV

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