Wood-painting of the Kama area, an art which discovered comparatively recently, is a remarka sphere of Russian folk arts and crafts. Such artic les were to be found in peasant houses, landlords' mansions, among them furniture and household utensils, tools and toys, as well as on river vessels and other means of transportation. Crafts-men usually painted flowers, birds, animals, the rosette symbolising the sun and the tree of life. It imparted a festive look to all wooden wares that had been for centuries produced by man. Included in this album for the first time are more than 400 wooden wares from 12 Soviet museums, including in their collections this type of art, recreating as it were the process of its develop-ment from the 17th through the 20th centuries.
