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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2022
The aim of this article is to present one of the biggest world collections of Ethiopian crosses and the man who was responsible for it - a Polish medical doctor Wactaw Korabiewicz who devoted much of his life to revealing the complicated system of symbolism of the crosses. Over the decades Wadaw Korabiewicz collaborated with different museums around the world. However, it was the National Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (MNW)) and its collection of Ethiopian crosses which Korabiewicz partly donated, partly offered as a perpetual deposit, which were the most important for the collector and to which he had the most emotional connection. This collection is today one of the biggest among the world collections of Ethiopian crosses, and also one of the most interesting. Apart from being a collector, Korabiewicz's ambition and great passion was research on the symbolism of a cross.
I would like to thank Professor Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska from the National Museum in Warsaw and Dariusz Skonieczko from the National Ethnographical Museum in Warsaw for their kind support.