A berry-picking rake is a small wooden scoop with prongs for picking up berries. It acts like a comb: it is carried out several times over the berry bushes, the branches of the bush slip between the rake’s prongs, the berries tear off the branches and remain in the scoop, then they are poured into a basket but the leaves are sifted through the hole at the bottom of the rake. Russian word for rake is grabilka, it is derived from the word "grab", which means to collect, rake (for example hay).
The inscription on the berry-picker kept in the Pustozersk Museum-Reserve informs that Pustozersk residents were engaged in woodcarving during leisure time or fishing season: «АВП, 1917, 29 августа. Роблено за Кареговкой. Ето лето чисто не было семги до праздн, с праздников было доволно». (“A.V.P. August 29, 1917. Made in Karegovka. This summer there was no salmon catching until holidays, from the holidays it became rich”.) Not far from Karegovka there was one of the best fisheries, where Pustozersk residents fished for salmon and where the fisherman Andrei Vasilyevich Ponomarev in 1917 carved a berry-picker for his daughter Anna from a single piece of wood. The tradition of making wooden products while waiting for fish or animals is also noted by the researchers of the Arkhangelsk Pomorie.