Displays in the National Ainu Tribe Museum Upopoi !

by Kazu

Welcome notes were extended by the people on the wall in English, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Thai and other langusages. I  thought the way of the display was like that of the Alberta Royal Museum in Edomonton in Alberta, Canada.

Different from the North America, the number of the Ainu tribes is not so huge but each tribe has its own pattern on the clothes and trays. Precisely speaking, each family had its own pattern for themselves.It might be very difficult for the novices to find the difference of the designs.

Therre had been a very famous Ainu sculptor Mr. Takeki FUJITO before. His son is also a sculptor. He is \living in Akan Area in the eastern part of Hokkaido. Mr. Takeki Fujito made a huge wooden sculpture of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and gave it away to Sovirt Union.