An Ainu village

An Ainu village

Ditch reeds and or cogon grasses were used in the walls and roofs of the cise houses. The maegoya cottage on the left is an annex to the omoya main house. The back of the main house was a sacred area with a shrine where inaw willow or dogwood wigs were offered on an altar. The device made from parallel cross logs in the foreground is a cage to rear infant bears. Poles to hang and dry fish are seen as well. This was adjacent to the Ainu warehouses depicted in photograph #3002.==Date:unknown, Place:Hokkaido, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number78‐50‐0]

Ainu people

Ainu people

These people are the same as those in photograph #3000. The three men, from the right, are holding the bows and flower arrows used in the iyomante ritual offered in tribute to the bear. Both women are wearing a cloth (ciepanup) tied over the head and a necklace with disks. In the foreground, religious twigs (inaw) are displayed.==Date:unknown, Place:Hokkaido, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number60‐1‐0]

Ainu women

Ainu women

The three women all have tattoos around the mouth area (left untinted?). They wear earrings with beads. The woman on each side wears an embroidered cotton coat over appliqu? and a necklace with tassels. In the centre foreground is a set of a lacquerware bowls, bo twigs, shu sake wine and a hei spatula, all indispensable to Ainu rituals. Sacred wood sticks (inaw) are visible on the right.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number50‐33‐0]