Evdokiia Nesterova is restoring a birch bark basket

“There were holes there, now they’re all broken. There’s a hole, right there. I’m going to put the willow root in there. It’s sewn this way so it won’t break. Yes, now it would break – very slowly. Or maybe I better not put it in. Now we push it in like this. That’s enough, see? It’s already tight.”

Recorded by Erich Kasten. Lesnaya, 2002.