A systematical study of the ethnographical specific of the Land of Calata awaits still its explorers. Little known from this point of view is also Calatele township.

The Village Valeni and its Hungarian inhabitants are present, from the ethnographical point of view, in the studies of Nagy Jeno from the period 1938-1954. There are mentioned the wedding customs from Valeni, the customs related to the hemp culture, the ewe-cheese preparation, the hay provision, some folk tales, burial rites, etc.

In 1957 the explorer I.R. Nicola (1913-1981) has gathered a few ballads from Calatele (kept at the Folklore Archives Institution) related to the mowing ceremony, wedding ceremony, the bride's ballad, lullabies, carols, children games. A beautiful version of Miorita has been collected from Calata at 30 of December 1956 by the same explorer, from Ilie Poptean.

The explorer Pompei Muresan has written a paper about the houses construction from the Land of Calata, using local information. From this we find out that the fir used for the house construction was cut from the individual hearth and smoothed at hand with the cleaver, then cut at the ends for creating the needed dents for the attachment to the corners of the walls. At the corners of the big houses they used to wedge large stones or small stones combined with earth, then a continuous stone wall that had broadened gradually, as the people started to build cellars.

Over this basement they used to lay engraved beech and oak boards. Then the walls made of fir logs were raised, immobilized with wooden nails. Over the coping of the walls they were laying the longeron for the strenghening of the building, then they were setting the coronals, that were holding the fir horns. The perchs of aspen, fir or beech were attached to the horns with wooden nails and the thick roof made of rye or wheat straws was built over them. Under the straws they used to lay a stratum of bean haulms to forbid the falling of the straws over the roof.

Then they were building the ceiling from fir beams. When it was impossible to procure long beams, they used medium boards with shorter logs between them. The roof used to be made of shingle, especially in the ancient times, the Land of Calata being an aged handiwork center. Towards the yard they were building a pendent porch made of pillars, used as a fender against the rain.

A part of the Romanians' and Hungarians' beliefs, superstitions and quack remedies from Calatele, Valeni, Fiinciu, Calata are gathered in a paper written by Pentek Janos and Szabo Attila, but in other ethnographical papers as well.

Therefore, the interesting and fabulous experience and continuance of a pastoral civilization from Calatele awaits still its explorers for a systematical study from the ethnographic point of view.