Ainu knives

[Gavin Nugent]

Peter, Jim,

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Gav, the book published by the Smithsonian is "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" , William W. Fitzhugh, 1999, and is on the material culture displayed in the exhibit my that name at the National Museum of Natural History there. ..Arctic Studies Center. It is found online under that title.

I will be sure to look it up Jim, thanks! If I can find a copy of the book with cheap freight to Australia I will be sure to grab a copy.

Originally Posted by freebooter

There is also another reference of a museum in the US that received a large collection of Ainu knives swords and artifacts in 1910, but I cannot at this point in time put my finger on, I'll supply it as soon as I can find it as I hope a forumite in this locality could obtain some further images from inventory the may have on display or locked away.Gav

The Museum I was speaking of in the Brooklyn Museum, In 1910 Stewart Culin, the museums first curator of Ethnology gathered an exceptional Ainu collection from abroad that was further supplemented by Professor Frederick Starr's collection which I beleive was displayed in 1904 at the "Louisiana Purchase Exhibition", an Ainu Exhibit.


The Piece pictured below is 36cms long.

Gav