Wooden ski (lyz’)

Komi; Komi

Tyumen Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region, Berezovo district, village

1990

Wood: aspen; threads: compositive: kapron; leather; natural glue; threads: compositive: kapron; fur: natural: leg skin (elk – Alces alces); metal: aluminum; paint; metal; specific materials: rubber; cloth; fur (reindeer)

РЭМ 13347-12/2

Wooden ski (lyz’), with a turned-up pointed nose. Cone-shaped bulges are carved on the ski’s nose and back. The Trans-Ural Komi call this ski type with cone-shaped bulges “Ostyak skis.” The bulges are provided on the nose and back for using the skis in spring time, when the snow crust can hold a hunter without skis, as a sled pallet: the skis were tied together at points near the bulges, a strap rope was tied to the thinner front bulges, the hunter put the rope over his shoulder, and the hunter’s load was places on the skis. Abstract by A.A. Chuvyurov