Talking Photos: Remember this ‘gunzuleo’?
Infact, i found out the name ‘gunzuleo’ from a comment left under the pic. And that it was used as an unit of weights by goldsmiths. Soon, I read somewhere that these were used by bakers (poder) when they did creatures (bread products) like birds etc during Christmas time - Used as birds eyes. All I remember was that it was used in Kerosen lamps (Petroli divo) at our times. Don’t know why? I guess it was just a fancy item in a see through glass kerosene lamps. There were many tinted glass lamps though. ‘The world will come to an end once the ‘gunzuleo’ turn completely red’ That was a legend attached to it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk38/5618621923/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk38/5618620681/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk38/5619222342/ ‘Pettroli divo’ usually a 200ml tinted glass bottle (empty cough syrup bottles etc). Make a hole in the middle of the screw cap and pass through it a cotton cloth ribbon or a ‘Sumb or sutli’. Filled with kerosene, light the top end above the cap. About 4 hours a night It would give about 3 nights before you refill it. We even used it in our Xmas stars when we did not have electricity (before 1975). It can be of tin too. This one is Chimney lamp (Chimnni divo) and we used ‘gunzuleo’ in it too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk2/84939930/ You find 'gunzulio' in the hilly areas at this time of the season. It's a creeper plant [email protected] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc
