1 So, they put two reindeer furs next to each other, to sleep next to each other as a family.
2 But the man's sleeping fur is seperated,
3 such a small reindeer fur because,
4 for sure it would be small, but
5 even though the big reindeer fur as well, but
6 inside the tent it's warm, as big as the fur is, that,
7 also spacious, look, your bed.
8 truly.
9 What is it now?
10 In the villages, in the villages usually,
11 also, the villagers also,
12 my son, my little son also,
13 his  bones hurt, he also has rheumatism,
14 and such bed linen, bed linen from a reindeer calf
15 he puts under hisself, and sleeps like this.
16 My daughter-in-law in turn her own, as well.
17 So, they sleep next to each other though...
18 - I heard, that they put on the feet lower fur...
19 - Eh? - That they put on the feet a separate fur.
20 - No! At one piece, the lower fur is at one piece, yes, look,
21 - Aha, I thought so, that he only put it on the feet.
22 
23 - So, they put it on the feet,
24 as you wish, you do, if your feet, your feet,
25 is warm
26 be it in cold weather.
27 But now,
28 now in the reindeer herder's tent living women
29 who knows them well?
30 Certainly they are doing the same way.
31 Because on one reindeer fur how could they fit and sleep together?!
32 The reindeer fur, truly, inside the Shepherd's tent it is warm.
33 Now they renounce Shepherd tents,
34 long time ago, in our little age in a reindeer tent,
35 we lived as Shepherds,
36 hunting squirrels, we went hunting other animals.
37 On reindeer furs, truly, there were no mattress at that time.
38 The bottom is a mat, grass mat,
39 and on the top they put the reindeer fur, inside a fur liner,
40 on the top the blanket.
41 Because it is cold at their living place.
42 You surely live in a warm countryside,
43 long time ago, long time ago
44 certainly
45 your relatives, you count among the Russian people,
46 you always lived in such a house certainly.
47 But we in our villages, there for sure
48 we have a house,
49 but as the reindeers arrived,
50 Sherpherd tent must be set, we go out into the woods.
51 Although we had a father, our brothers,
52 for the reindeers also must be set a tent.
53 Without an accomodation how could they live?
54 Your reindeer's house
55 is also covered
56 per family. On the other side a family,
57 on the bed or someone, my brother, he has a son,
58 on this side grandma, grandpa
59 is living.
60 In such a large tent, that could be used to living well, there were as many people, as could fit well.
61 My dad also died early.
62 
63 - And where do you put this reindeer skins at the time of moving?
64 - On the sobu-sleigh.
65 - They put it there?
66 - You put it on the sobu. And your husband's reindeer fur
67 you put on the wanti sleigh.
68 - Where?
69 - On the wanti, in Khanty on the storage sleigh, in which the clothes
70 are packed.
71 This pillows, or what, blankets, furs, furs to cover.
72 The blanket now appeared,
73 In the past what the shit blanket, there was no blanket.
74 Always fur, everybody had a fur to cover.
75 Long reindeer fur, made for this purpose,
76 To reach the feet.
77 - And the women had an own fur to cover?
78 - The women separatly, surely, together how,
79 - I meen, that the women covered with they own furs,
80 - With they own furs, yes!
81 And the men, they
82 also worn by the women, but longer furs.
83 The men are surely taller, and to keep their feet warm.
84 - And there
85 I thought, that they were sew straight to men...
86 - Well, who could, straight.
87 - Who couldn't, with the fur worn by the wife, yes for sure.
88 At that time the poor Khanty had many children,
89 some could not stand it.
90 They had so many children, ten children, eight children,
91 they also had no time.
92 There were those who, some of them made fish dam,
93 the women helped,
94 life was very hard before.
95 Those who had reindeers, they lived well yes.
96 Those who not really had reindeers, they did not see  much good.
97 The fur is needed,
98 clothes should be made.
99 You have to get it from somewhere.
100 In return for fish or something. [...]
101 - Well his little boy, when he went out, to where he was going,
102 how could he live alone, he had to have somebody,
103 
104 people don't live alone in a house.
105 I had woman relatives, what was it was,
106 some toddler arrives, I
107 was there until I was 15,
108 oh, I really loved being with toddlers!
109 My woman relative, is the mother of this Oleg Petrovich
110 Oleg was born, arrived, and
111 my an was suffering a long time from childbirth,
112 laying,
113 
114 and now somewhere, where probably Lyuba lives,
115 at home
116 I took care of him.
117 At home,
118 we slept together, and
119 in the morning we went out, we went there,
120 there is also everything clean, like in the reindeer herders' tents.
121 Clean tent, there we go inside,
122 he has a floor,
123 we eat together, then we also wake up the child, swaying it.
124 
125 we had someone.
126 But if someone is alone, even then.
127 to kill your child how could he let? Definitely
128 someone, if there is a grandmother, grandmother goes in,
129 For example in Yokhantay,
130 when I had a daughter, Nadiya,
131 her grandmother always went there.
132 And there was Porsz-antyi, my cousin maternal branch,
133 my daughter's navel mother,
134 she also came often, granmother also came often,
135 it is full of people, even the separate place with the house,
136 they're walking around, too.
137 And the same way, sometimes you wake itup, sometimes it falls asleep, and at the time it is sleeping, as long as it sleeps
138 you go out somewhere.
139 When you feel better,
140 you bring firewood, or carry water,
141 you cook some food,
142 beacause somehow you have to live.
143 Because food
144 nowdays how couldn't be, by eating some food,
145 likewise, you eat freshly salted fish, eat fresh fish,
146 you eat meat, something.
147 Anykind of meat, it's all is meat. Whether it's capercaillie meat, or if it is reindeer meat.
148 Ready. [...]
149 - And at that time some kind of fish musn't eat, meat certainly musn't eat. 
150 - At that time this kind of elk meat musn't eat,
151 luce or burbot musn't eat,
152 Khanty style.
153 - It isn't allowed as an expectant mother?
154 Or is it allowed as an expectant mother?
155 Well, if you child was born, as long as you are an expectant mother, then is is allowed,
156 but when your child is born, you have your period, then it isn't allowed.
157 Then is isn't allowed.
158 
159 Then you should not, though so,
160 Now you are a young woman, although my period have long gone,
161 when you get your period,
162 eating luce or burbot isn't allowed.
163 The other fish can all be eaten by what you eat, you eat.
164 The thing gets over and you eat.
165 This thing gets to the end, and then.
166 Now actually who knows!
167 The Russian... Towards Azovo, luce is eaten as a raw fish.
168 Who knows, nowdays
169 Then who knows, from somewhere they bulid a road to us, and
170 after that after building a road some kind of
171 starting to build a railway, they say there will be no fish in the river. What we are going to eat then who knows?
172 I wish it was after our death! [...]
173 - Those the old ones
174 spoke, that the yarn-making woman,
175 There is someone who scares you or what she do with it.
176 Who knows?
177 In our time certainly there isn't!
178 But certainly she in the villages, where ones lives alone,
179 when she is alone, at night,
180 The children certainly didn't go to a boarding school long ago, didn't learn at school,
181 In the evening what are you giggling so much?
182 you shoudn't, then the yarn-making-woman comes.
183 Children are scared, so that they are no longer in the evening.
184 
185 
186 
187 - She really lives in the garbage dumps? Or closer? Or where?
188 - Yes, she is, the children
189 say that,
190 Oh, the yarn-making-woman is probably a long time ago.
191 She is certainly in some fairy tales.
192 She comes and makes yarn.
193 For me ... I didn't meet her.
194 I don't know.
195 They were just scaring us: the yarn-making-woman comes.
196 She certainly lived in the garbage dumps,
197 lives.
198 
199 Lived, and now who knows?
200 
201 Now, by this age, who knows? In the past, who said,
202 they saw a yeti.
203 They used to be long ago, and now
204 they want to come again.
205 Who knows, how, I don't know.
206 I certainly don't know the old things...
207 actually I don't really know.