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Drawings of a smaller versions of koplytėlės. The first photo shows koplytėlės on poles while the second one is koplytėlės that got nailed to trees.

Usually seen in crossroads, they were a lot less decorated than standing ones, often only had a single wooden sculpture or a carving inside.

"Lietuvių liaudies menas. Jo meninių formų plėtojimosi pagrindai" by Paulius Galaunė, 1930

P.S.: my family calls the ones on poles "koplytstulpis", they're often seen on crossroads, middle of a country road or even on hills, if you ever went to Hill of Crosses you would notice lots of them. What I'm wondering about is if they're not the same as the "shrines" seen in church yards, you know, the ones that have various saints in them.

Earlier this year the museum underwent some big repairs and updates and expansions in its display, and I was already making plans to go there within weeks.

And then russia destroyed it. The entire historical building it was in. Part of the building turned into ruins.

First they destroy things. And then they destroy even the memory if the things they destroyed earlier.

Crimean Roma (Çingene) were deported alongside Crimean Tatars. During World War II and nazi occupation of Crimea, Crimean Roma faced the threat of mass extermination as part of the Romani Holocaust. Most of the mass murders of Crimean Roma took place from 1941 to 1942.