Environmental Knowledgeof the North

On horseback to collect wild garlic

From the village of Lesnaya, people take a day trip on horseback into the tundra to collect a special kind of wild garlic. It is later preserved with salt and provides important vitamins for the winter. During the rest by the fire, one rejoices heartily about the good collecting yield. It is also shown how a woman treats her sprained leg with this plant after she fell off her horse on the way there. When they return to the settlement around midnight, it is still light because it is midsummer time.

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Gathering plants around the Koryak settlement of Lesnaya