Today’s item is a shoulder yoke. It is a three-and-a-half foot section of a large timber carved to fit a man’s shoulders with cylindrical projections on either end. The idea of the yoke is to enable a ...

Oksana Shirshova, unemployed, carries a shoulder yoke with two buckets hanging on it after drawing water from the Teryol river in Verkhnyaya Biryusa village, located in the Taiga area near the ...