The collection of the Sheltozero Veps Ethnographic Museum named after Rurik Petrovich Lonin features a tub for beating laundry (humbarʽ), made by an unknown master, apparently in the middle of the 19th century. No information has been preserved about the donor of the item.

The tub is hollowed out of a single piece of wood along the central part, expanding upwards. This laundry appliance consists of two parts: a long deck on which one stood, and a hollowed-out recess where laundry was rinsed.

The Veps washed their clothes in steam bathhouses, which were built near a reservoir, river or lake. The baths were heated in a black way: it was customary to sweat there rather than wash, and instead of regular stoves in such baths there was a kamenka (stone stove), which was placed directly on the ground. The stones became hot from the strong fire. When water was splashed on the stone stove, it produced strong steam and heat.

A separate day was devoted to washing. Before that, dirty laundry was soaked for a day. The bathhouse was heated in the morning, and at the same time lye was made — a water-based infusion of wood ash. This solution has a highly alkaline reaction; it was used for washing and cleaning instead of soap. When the water in the bathhouse boiled, it was poured into a buck — a wooden tub for bucking linen. At the base of the bottom of the tub there was a drain hole for water, which was tightly plugged.

The laundry was placed in a linen bag. Hot stones were taken from the stone stove in the bath with tongs and placed on the bottom of the buck; then hot water was poured there. A bag of dirty laundry was put into the buck and lye was poured in. From the red-hot stones, the hot water began to boil. Through the drain hole of the buck, the water was drained into another container and poured again — this process was called bucking. Then heavily soiled fabrics were taken out of the bag and washed on a special board, placed in a washtub and carried outside to the reservoir. The rinsing process began. A rinsing tub (humbarʽ) was hung on the street-side of the bathhouse, in which fabrics were beaten with two poles (korendad), which were stored in the upper part of the bathhouse. After that, the laundry was rinsed in a washtub, and dirty water was discharged. The laundry was dried outside or in the attic.