A model of a birch-bark knapsack from Toboldiny (Finnish translation)

This birch-bark knapsack is made of a sheet of birch bark by sewing the sides together. The knapsack’s mouth is reinforced with wooden hoops sewn on both the inside and outside of it. The lid is round and attached to the knapsack with a leather strap. The knapsack has leather straps that are threaded through a transverse wooden stick. The stick was used to balance the weight of the knapsack. The birch-bark knapsack and its lid are covered with patterns made by scratching. On the lid is a pattern called “sun halo”; one side has an image of a bear and the other “a man fishing with a koldan”. A koldan is a bag-like fishing net. At the bottom of the dish is a “fox elbow” and the sides have “pinecone halves”. The model is from the village of Toboldiny (Finnish translation) near the river Severnaya Sosva.