The son of the famous Ainu artist Mr. Bikki Sunazawa said there was no precise definition of Ainu tribe, so everybody can say that they are the descendants of Ainu who were distinguished by the Japanese people and can get funding to become international students and to build their house with low or no interest.
He also said that Ainu people did not have the custom of bathing. I am not sure to what extent his explanation describes the real life and roots of the indigenous people of Hokkaido Ainu but he is the real descendant of them.
Those shoes were made of the skin of salmon and deer. I know that the Aleutian people called Unangan use the gut of seals to make their raincoat for fishing from the kayaks but I've never seen the same in Ainu culture.
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