The Yugan River Khanty are a local dialectical subgroup of the Eastern Khanty who live in the basin of the Bolshoy Yugan and Maly Yugan rivers.
In traditional Khanty culture women were responsible for the house, and men — for the forest.
The main trade of the Khanty of the Yugan basin is fishing. It is no coincidence that in the 19th century European travelers and the Russian population called the Khanty “fish-eaters”.
The exhibition presents fishing equipment: an oblas boat and a narta sled, muzzle fish traps, fishing nets, sinkers, floats, and tools for making fishing gear.
Besides that, a large share of the local economy relied on hunting for game animals and birds, both large and small. The exhibition presents arrows for hunting various animals, bows and a crossbow, a foothold trap, and a cherkan trap.
The exhibition also presents women’s household items: boxes made of fir bark, kornevatik baskets for storing food and tableware, wooden bowls and spoons, birch bark kuzhenka containers and kuzovok bags.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.