And it is difficult to persuade people that such is not really the case. When Prof. 

 TSUBOI was showing the figures in the University Museum at Tokyo to Prof. 

 Starr of Chicago in .1894, doubts at once entered into the Professor's mind, he 

 tells us, as to the existence of any Koropok-giirii as distinct from the Ainu. In his 

 little book entitled " The Ainu Groupe," Prof Starr says on page 86,- " Now, of 

 course, we never believed in any such Koropok-gurit. We had been impressed by 

 the arguments and we had been greatly interested at Yokohama, in a chart or 

 diagram, which a friend had shown us, in which a reconstruction of the life of this 

 early race of Japan was attempted. We were specially astonished at the detailed 

 information regarding the dress of the Koropok-guru, which the chart seemed to 

 show. Later, in Tokyo, at the University, Prof TsuBOI showed us some ancient 

 figures of human beings and it was clear that the author of the chart had gained 

 his ideas of dress from these. And in the presence of this instructive chart and the 

 evidence shown me by the learned Prof, my first doubts regarding their history 

 arose. Surely the shell heeps, the crude pottery, the stone tools, and the old pit- 

 houses were never made by a people who dressed as those represented in these 

 figures. To-day we feel somewhat skc2:)tical with reference to the whole theory of 

 a pre-Ainu race." Such are the words of Prof. Starr, and we cannot but agree 

 with him. 



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