440 REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 



In describing the Ainos it must be said that, unless otherwise stated, 

 the word Aiuo, as used by the present author, is restricted to the Ainos 

 of Yezo. The importance of this distinction may be seen by compar- 

 ing the group of so-called Tsuishikari Ainos (PI. lxxxii), and the single 

 and very excellent type shown in Plate lxxxiii, with the group of Yezo 

 Ainos from Abashiri in Plate lxxxiv, and in the succeeding illustrations. 

 In the Abashiri group the man sitting cross-legged near the the middle 

 undoubtedly belongs to the Tsuishikari type. The latter came from Sag- 

 halin in 1875 and settled in the rich valley of the Ishikari to the num- 

 ber of seven or eight hundred. They were visited by Mr. J. M. Dixon* 

 in the year 1882. At that time he found them about 12 miles from Sap- 

 poro, at the juuction of the Ishikari and Toyohira Kivers. When I 

 reached Sapporo in 1888, intending to visit them, I learned that they 

 had all moved to Atsuta, about 26 miles from Sapporo, on the Ishikari. 

 Unfortunately I was unable to visit them, but through the courtesy of 

 Mr. H. Sato, of the Sapporo Agricultural College, I was able to secure 

 a valuable collection of articles from them, which are now in the Mu- 

 seum. 



The Tsuishikari Ainos differ in several respects from the Ainos of 

 Yezo. The men are distinguished by a peculiar manner of shaving the 

 hair back from the forehead. Mr. Dixon says they also "cut their hair 

 at the back into the neck." The women have bright, pleasing faces, 

 and tattoo the mouth, like the Yezo Ainos, with a broad band reaching 

 well to the ears. Their utensils differ slightly from those found among 

 the Yezo Ainos, and their language is similar, but not quite the same. 

 The two wooden dishes represented in Fig. 69 are quite different from 

 any which I saw among the Yezo Ainos. The one marked 150774 is 

 said to be used as a rice bowl. It is 12 inches in length. The other, 

 150777, is presumably a fish plate. The Ainos are characterized by a 

 strong growth of hair about the legs and body, long black hair on the 

 head, and heavy beards. Writers have occasionally asserted that the 

 Ainos are not generally more hairy than other people, but I have else- 

 where shown how such an error might be explained. My own obser- 

 vations of what I regard as a purer Aino stock than is usually seen by 

 travelers in Yezo, have convinced me that great hairiness of the body 

 is a strong characteristic of the Aino men, and the evidence of this is 

 to be seen in the photographs which I have brought home. 



The Ainos are small in stature, although rather larger than the Jap- 

 anese. They are more strongly built, and doubtless endowed with 

 greater powers of endurance. In color they are rather brown than yel- 

 low, but scarcely darker than the Japauese. On this point, however, 

 it is difficult to speak with confidence, for they do not bathe or wash, 

 and the natural color of the skin is not often seen. The hair and beard, 



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