Kitchen cup. Yukh anekh
In order to make the process of describing traditional utensils more simple, it is necessary to make the classification of such items more detailed and separate household utensils from tools (knives, drills, scrapers, etc.) or craft supplies, and to put children’s toys into a separate category. I would suggest the following classification of household utensils:
1. Furniture and interior items (tables, seats, shelves, chests, bedspreads, mats, mats);
2. Bedding items (curtains, skin-beds, pillows, sakh blankets, baby blankets, cradles, hooks for hanging cradles);
3. Cookware (boilers, kettles, hooks for hanging pots, trivets, trays, dough proofing containers, mortars and pestles, sieves, boards for cutting fish, pointed stakes, peels for bread, stone graters);
4. Dishes and tableware (dishes, cups, bowls, troughs, plates, spoons, ladles, spatulas, knives);
5. Containers for collecting foods (kuzov containers, tuyes, berry picking baskets, scoops, buckets);
6. Containers for storing foods (tuyes containers, salt shakers, fish-skin bags, vessels for fish oil, birch bark boxes and fir bark boxes for dry fish, fish powder);
7. Items for storing and processing non-food products <…>;
8. Items for storing property <…>;
9. Sewing equipment <…>;
10. Various items (shovels, snow knockers <…>);
11. Items used for hygienic purposes (towels, cotton wool) and touchwood for cradles; 12. Items with religious or cult significance.
As a rule, such mundane wooden household items as cups were never decorated, as they would quickly break due to intensive use and require replacement.
The small cup on display in the Ugut Museum of Local History was used for serving jam and fresh berries. However, it could also be used outside the kitchen, when girls and children played by mimicking the daily household activities of adults.
There was a diverse variety of traditional wooden children’s toys; although, by now many of them have been forgotten. A deer made of wood chips is one of the most popular kinds of traditional children’s toys. Such toys can be carved by both adults and children. The list of toys includes miniature bows and arrows, boats with oars, sleds, drills, birch bark chum tents.
Kitchen cup. Yukh anekh
