Siberian House from Birch Bark and Fish! - Сибирский дом из бересты и рыбы!

[@sol3cito33]

Long live my Khanty brothers, awesome people! Love and hugs from Hungary!

[@primexqu3957]

RUS: Родился и живу более 40 лет в России (СССР), и впервые о таком покрытии для дома слышу. Удивительно! ENG: I was born in Russia more than 40 years ago. But i see that method for the very firs time. Amazing!

[@maggieadams8600]

Yes, thanks for this and all of your other videos which I've only just found. It's wonderful to see people work together for a common cause and to find everything necessary from nature. I'm learning so much from them. These skills will always be useful.

[@robertrobert7924]

Birchbark is wonderful stuff. Especially in an enviroment where the trees grow to larger diameters, so larger, thicker pieces can be stripped for making containers, canoes and longhouses. Waste peices are great for firestarting because of the natural flamable pitch they contain.

[@keridesireeGerBaldi]

ok thx no one asked

[@MrCMJustice]

Thank you for sharing this experience of humanity

[@christophermarshall527]

Such beautiful looking shelters!!

[@murraykriner9425]

I adore that these people admire a tradition of getting the spirit of the trees permission, and follow ritual as they do. It is little wonder that this method of shelter construction is falling into disuse with the vast quantity of trees harvested, time in preparation for boiling in the fatty oils of the dried fish, and the hand sewing of the elements. The poles would also require some care as well, which would involve further care, and the cords for securing it would need to be produced. Glad that other's outside Siberia are making some efforts to secure the knowledge before it becomes lost to the world. Well done.

[@paisagismoeagroecologia7792]

Thank you all for this amazing material! And special thanks to Rosa and her familly/community!

[@NomadArchitecture]

You are welcome. More to come when I can find the time to edit them.

[@tatianaibr9521]

Очень интересный канал, спасибо.

[@jorgekennedyp.campos7906]

I love this type of research and the valuable opportunity to get to know communities that follow ancestral traditions. Thanks!!!

[@Ermanariks_til_Aujm]

I am currently writing and designing a fictitious world where nomadicisms of various invented cultures are at play, and your videos are really helpful in many aspects. Thank you for your work.

[@michaeltellurian825]

Sounds interesting. Best of luck in your efforts!

[@NomadArchitecture]

"nomadicisms" great word.

[@Ermanariks_til_Aujm]

@@NomadArchitecture Indeed it should be nomadisms haha! Not my native tongue

[@benitoriviera3157]

Humans never stop to amaze me, need it's the mother of all inventions, great work.

[@Татьяна-ж6ы2п]

Как красиво,всем благополучия!

[@clebouthillier239]

Hello they are not the only people who did this . North America first nation did this exact tent too . I remember learning about it as a child . Must of been in the 80's-90's. In New Brunswick Canada

[@eckosters]

Your channel is amazing. What important work this all is, to record and preserve these ancient customs and skills. Thank you.

[@jayaseelans7942]

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[@hankypanky9380]

very pleasant listening your voice as a story teller ..... Many thanks for your videos.

[@koobeedoo]

Brilliant! The tent , the skills and that you were able to meet her. The relationship with the trees reminded me of the book "Tending the Wild" by M. Kat Anderson. A really fascinating research book about the resource management practices of Indians of California.

[@AhJodie]

This is very interesting, I would never have guessed all this work made the bark so great, thank you for sharing!

[@leeedmunds2539]

Yet another important record! So interesting also, to see the architectural evidence of the routes that intercontinental migration paths took. My thanks

[@greenspiritarts]

Fascinating! I did not know that the bark could be harvested without damaging the tree. I work with Birch Bark a lot as it is plentiful in our region but I would never harvest from a living tree, only a dead or fallen one. It looks like she is taking off the top 1/4 to 1/3 of the total bark depth….enough to make pliable sheets but also leaving the tree with plenty of layers. I just may ask some of the Birch trees here on this land if they might be willing to try this. 🙏. Thank you for sharing.

[@charonsiouxsie949]

What an amazing adventure your work holds. Not just for you but humanity. I'm so excited to see the book. If these videos aren't referenced in the book, I'll be sure to find them all an add them to my copy. Bless all in the making of your book, and bless Gordon for your beautiful contribution to life.

[@AngelaStone5678]

Just found your channel and I've watched all your videos in one go! This one is one of my favourites!

[@NomadArchitecture]

Thanks, another batch coming soon.

[@corvusduluth]

Many thanks for your videos. Birch "The Giving Tree", bark, sap in spring, fire wood, marterial for bowls, axe handles, snow shovels, the Mother of Chaga, switches, etc. There are "recreation" villages in Northern Wisconsin, and elsewhere, on Resvervations which have "Cone", and "Dome" birch bark covered wiigwam. Wiigwam, covered by wiigwaas.

[@RabbitsInBlack]

I was thinking. Maybe they don't know about Wisconsin?

[@MrLuizpontual]

Very similar to the Bark Tipyes of traditional Ojibwe use, found in the region of the Great Lakes. Some of them can be seen in the Grand Portage National Monument in Minnessota.

[@Xtreme808machine]

WOW!! Amazing skills!!

[@nelsonpagel2175]

Thank you for sharing! Interesting how people survived from the land in all the different environments. I appreciate how they did it and it's part of their culture so the knowledge should be preserved.

[@paulMilenium8842]

Most amazing Russian work thatnks for Chanel and Russia

[@Crosswalker.]

Great technique, never seen it done this way before... 😊👍

[@elizabethross6895]

Another terrific video! It was great to have your additional narration. I really liked having more information about the process :)

[@nikhatjehanfarooqui5432]

Marvelous piece of art

[@deborahfielder8620]

Amazing what can be done with materials at hand

[@susansarmiento3401]

Wonderful to know such lovely and natural material were used in making tent. How lovely to watch and great effort put into it😊❤️

[@marasi36]

Interesting video, thanks!

[@keithdouglas9848]

Amazing, thanks for posting:-)

[@tanyanosek1938]

I stumbled across your videos and have watched several now. Thank you for doing this- I think it's really important work, to document these traditions and make a record of this kind of knowledge.

[@NomadArchitecture]

Thank you, Tanya. The main reason I put them on YT is for people to stumble across. Nearly all these buildings are on the edge of extinction.

[@normann4016]

congrats for your project and for the co-operation between the two countries !

[@freedom_guard]

Познавательно. Спасибо.

[@KatherineUribe-1]

Outstanding! I would love to learn how to do that!

[@sorennilsson9742]

Fantastic work, greatfull not living there the mosquitos would have driven me into madness.

[@petrklic7064]

It is totally amazing. I thought that they cut that tree first. But they leave it alive. Fascinating.

[@barrchan5358]

The Khanty people seem to feel like a transition between the Oriental polar nomad peoples (I'm not sure it's appropriate calling) and the Saami peoples of northern Europe.This kind of tent and the way of using fish skin and oil can also be seen in Oroqen, Ewenki and Ainu peoples Thanks sharing your work!

[@NomadArchitecture]

Good point Barr, it is a massive research topic to try to find out who came first though. There is some archaeological evidence of conical structures in Siberia that is around 20-30,000 years old. If you have any good info on the cultures you mention I would love to see it. The Evenki I know built semi-permanent bark structures, Oroqen and Ainu I know nothing about.

[@barrchan5358]

@@NomadArchitecture Hi, I'm not a professional in this field, so my understanding is also scattered. I am a visual designer interested in history and culture. In recently interested in the culture of "Liao Dynasty / Khitan" , so before I saw your video, I also have read some culture info about. Evenki, Oroqen, can be regarded as the descendants of ancient Evenki live inf my country today(China). The basic difference I know is that in traditional culture, Evenki are basically the reindeer nomads live in the forest, and the meaning of the Evenki is "people who protect the forest". Some parts of Oroqen people live as the grassland nomads, but ethnic name probably means "Deer Hunter". They also have a neighbor -- Daur, who is the direct descendant of the ancient Khitan. They are considered to be semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic. The three of them seem to have lived in Hulunbuir region since about 15/ 16th century, and they all have a lot of birch bark using culture. The Ainu people are the indigenous people live in northern Japan. It seems that they also have a part live in Russia. They should not be the nomadic people, but the settled people of fishing and hunting Well, I'm just type from my impression. It's not any rigorous. It's only for chatting 😝

[@almeggs3247]

Thanks very cute kids!

[@christianwitness]

Great presentation and film work!

[@diannawesson40]

Most Amazing! I am so thankful that your organization has decided to research and record this historical event. How canI contribute to your work?

[@NomadArchitecture]

Look us up at www.nomads.org. send me an email and I will add you to our annual newsletter. If you really want to contribute then tell me how you would like to help.

[@m005kennedy]

Excellent video! This is the one I like the most so far.

[@NomadArchitecture]

Thank you Mike. We are slowly learning how to do this!

[@m005kennedy]

@@NomadArchitecture this was of more interest to me because I could source all these materials in our woods in Maine. Not that Ill ever build one but birch bark is an amazing material.

[@storyart2990]

I enjoyed the good video usefully.

[@michaeltellurian825]

Very nice video and love the work you're doing.

[@muhammadsaleemofficial9225]

A beautiful video my friend

[@viniciusdiniz9497]

Love this channel thank you sooo much !

[@GOLDSMITHEXILE]

Another fantastic film! I would have liked to see more of those beautiful moccs the lady was wearing, very cool

[@NomadArchitecture]

Good point, it has never occurred to me to even think about their clothes!

[@karate4348]

Wonderful woman and culture and wisdom and practice makes perfect ...'one of the last remaining birch bark tents. My heart sinks... What a stupid animal we have become. can't even make our own houses anymore or eat or sleep without wrecking the planet. There are still trees which would provide shelter for a whole family group in one piece of bark.

[@NicolasDudic-ph4kd]

Great video...Thanks!

[@lukeriley4628]

Amazing! thank you for sharing!

[@NomadArchitecture]

How did you find it? Its not supposed to be public yet!

[@sirsha6973]

Is it supposed to public now? 🤔

[@michaeltellurian825]

@@NomadArchitecture I'm subscribed to your channel and turned on all notifications. The link to this video was emailed to me today by YT.

[@NomadArchitecture]

@@michaeltellurian825 Thanks, YT was a bit out of order then, but I made it public now. I just wanted to play around with the thumbnail. Thanks for subscribing. I never meant this to be a real channel, it just seems to be happening.

[@NomadArchitecture]

@@sirsha6973 yes I changed it cos YT just decided it was anyway!

[@WakingRay]

Subscribed yesterday, first narrated video I watch on this channel. Great voice and tone !!!

[@ramachandrareddyp6637]

Very beautiful

[@lyndaschroeder8117]

wonderfull. Thank you!

[@adrianmartin6974]

Very interesting I do hope these and other dying crafts are documented

[@dianarowland167]

That's awesome. So many lost arts. I would like to have one of those to escape to!

[@102create]

Amazing work ❣️❣️❣️

[@fabioferreiragomes]

Simplesmente........Espetacular

[@ratansinghnegi457]

Great skill n mesmerizing too.

[@maimoonabanu3974]

Marvelous.Extradinary work. Love from India

[@adsouza1989]

Eu ainda não conhecia essa técnica, achei bem interessante! ☺

[@turniok4315]

Sehr interessant. Danke! LG!

[@dmitrilebedev8635]

Interesting technology. These traditions are underrated here in Siberia, so I wish you best of luck with this conservation project! And thanks for documenting the process. I did visit a moving museum with such chooms of several peoples, but there you could only see the end result. So I think you popularized it more than any Russian did.

[@Khamomil]

Fascinating techniques. Birch bark has been used by many civilizations, including Native Americans. It's the closest to leather in the phyto kingdom.

[@NomadArchitecture]

Yes, I don't know if anyone in the world is still using it today as part of their normal lives though. Let me know if you come across any.

[@Khamomil]

@@NomadArchitecture Synthetic fabrics and plastic have made these skills obsolete. Already Native Americans in the far North have long ago replaced basketry with colorful plastic baskets in their traditional wedding gifts (as seen in the Museum of Ethnography in Philadelphia). But some amateurs who like this material are learning how to plait and weave and fold it to make boxes and containers. All is not lost!

[@lareekline8232]

@@NomadArchitecture Not shelter, but you can still purchase baskets made by Native Americans here: nativeharvest.com/blogs/news/harvesting-birch-bark

[@NomadArchitecture]

Thanks Laree, they seem to have taken down their sales at the moment but I might get in touch with them anyway.

[@m.a.packer5450]

I'm a huge primitive technology nerd and think this is really cool, but people should learn to do this sort of thing out of practicality

[@rahamadullan8411]

It's really hard team work,and also similar style from Asia,Africa,and other continent too.

[@luciamasik9943]

wędzenie ryb, super

[@niketutsriwahyuni8890]

nice video. ciao da roma Italia

[@sliewood]

Thank you for documenting and trying to preserve this amazing survival technique. How long do you think, did it take to work out this process in the first place- given that these amazing people started with nothing and no technological assistance; and then how long did it take to abandon it when canvas appeared? I appreciate the obvious material differences and superiority in every way of modern materials... But is there NO room for traditional methodology in a culture which is being westernised? It's sad because the world seems full of people trying to bushcraft and here are indigenous peoples being robbed of those very same skills. Where is the right path?

[@NomadArchitecture]

Most of the cultures I have been recording do not even know how special they, or their skills are. Taken globally, these indigenous people are custodians of a huge body of knowledge that we in the west have only just started to appreciate, yet many have governments who see them as backwards. This is the reason I am doing this, youtube is just one way of letting others see that there is something we need to be trying to protect. As to how long it took for them to work this out, I think skills evolve in leaps, then hold steady when a good fit to the culture and environment has been achieved. I think the use of bark started with small things, boxes and baskets, possibly thousands of years ago.

[@ИринаКопосова-д2б]

@@NomadArchitecture Спасибо! Latvia🇱🇻

[@victoriachatterbox8492]

Wow that elder lady puts me to shame, the patience and skill is amazing, she can basically build a warm cosy reliable Mobil home for her family and needs nothing more than nature, for many years society looked down on these ppl because they still enjoyed basic living but now that things are coming to a head they can look down on us and our lack of basic knowledge just to service without Ebay and Asda, oh how the tables have turned

[@shelleygeraths]

All I can say is wow.

[@ahmetkarakoyunlu4125]

Harika bir iş 👍 👍 ❤️ ❤️

[@tulipxpress5205]

Excellent

[@LePrasson98]

Very interesting

[@mattmatty4670]

Amazing. New knowledge thankyou. Hunter gatherers meet sedentary?

[@tomaszjaschke631]

Thank you so much you beautifull people:)

[@olddominionfishing180]

Truly fascinating

[@savedorslaved4371]

Beautiful stuff

[@ΒΑΓΓΕΛΗΣΤΖΕΛΑΣ]

Very nice!!!

[@AM-uu7js]

True materials technology

[@corvusduluthV2]

Thanks to the "New and Improved" KZbin, I lost 13 years of subscriptions, and videos, one of which is this video, but was able to find this again.

[@maybesomaybenot1652]

Meanwhile.. the "modern world" is spending time fighting over calling Mr. Potatohead, just Potatohead to make it gender inclusive. (I was born in the wrong century)

[@skemsen]

Skinning the trees alive - looks brutal for the trees.

[@HalfQ]

Very interesting, I have never seen this method before even though it makes a lot of sense. I'd love to be part of a operation like this but sadly not financially.

[@georgewhitehouse8630]

HalfQ what have you seen before?

[@mustamuri]

I made large birchbark tent 30 ears ago in Finland , from Saarijärven Stoneages villages , but not same way than this video .

[@NomadArchitecture]

Yes, I would like to hear more too. I know they have two or three bark covered structures. Maybe we should persuade you/them to make another! Do get in touch gor.clarke(at)nomads.org.

[@mustamuri]

@@NomadArchitecture I send you some old pictures for e-mail .

[@nylonbagmaking2360]

Thanks bro

[@MasterChief-sl9ro]

That is lots of time and effort. No wonder they welcome the invention of Canvas.

[@user-yr5nv2gv7m]

0:54 even in modern fungarian (k)hánt means 'to peel/skin'

[@casparurban8730]

thank you for translation

[@user-yr5nv2gv7m]

@@casparurban8730 just a sidenote i dont actually know the etymology apparently derives from an endonym /wiki/Khanty# History

[@csenuber]

They must be very strong people to live among armies of hungry mosquitos.

[@henryshearman5550]

Is there a recent update on this project please?

[@NomadArchitecture]

Yes, sure, first covid then the Ukranian war has made travel to Russia impossible at the moment, but we are talking to some American and Canadian people about their bark traditions.

[@beautsjourney]

It’s amazing I love that

[@mortalclown3812]

Are the birch trees harmed by bark removal? If not, I can see why this would be valuable to learn and teach. Am thinking of resources and how quickly they grow. The world needs billions of trees as it is to help combat climate emergency.

[@thelandofpan25]

Love it!

[@billwilliams9897]

I would like to know about their knives they use. How is that handle attached to the blade? 0:57 I also noticed a similar handle on another knife in one other of your videos.

[@NomadArchitecture]

Good question. Her husband made the knives. If I can get out there again next summer I will ask.

[@billwilliams9897]

@@NomadArchitecture Thank you.

[@bobbyduke777]

what did they make the thread out of that the bark is sown together with?

[@paulusvdvoren8209]

birch bark is so flammable how do you deal with this?

[@toddlecher4097]

people are tough as nails, living in cold year round an living with the land. what would they think to come see the city for a day with trash & pollution, exhaust fumes, power plants

[@yaddahaysmarmalite4059]

and working at a hard labor job for low wages.

[@tenzinkunsal2830]

Work good