Ainu man holding farm implement
- Title:
- Ainu man holding farm implement
- Collection:
- Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections
- Photographer:
- Romyn Hitchcock
- Date:
- 1888-08
- Site:
- Hokkaidō, Hokkaidō, Hokkaidō, Japan
- Location:
- Hokkaidō, Hokkaidō, Hokkaidō, Japan
- Country:
- Japan
- ID Number:
- Anthr1943_004_0094
- Old Catalog Number:
- 943.4.94
- File Name:
- Anthr1943_004_0094.jpg
- Work Type:
- lantern slides
- Subject:
- Ainu (culture or style)
- Measurement:
- 3.25 x 4 (inches)
- Description:
- Photograph of an Ainu man from the town of Shibets on the NW coast of Yezo. He is barefoot, holding a staff, and has opened his robe to reveal loincloth and body hair.
- Bibliography:
- Romyn Hitchcock "The Aino of Yezo, Japan" USNM Annual Report 1890, pg. 500.
- Related Work:
- An albumen photoprint is also available: NAA INV 04748200, Photo lot 77-38, Romyn Hitchcock photographs of Ainu people, Japan, and Korea, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Archival Collection:
- Anthropology Lantern Slides
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Collection 'Selections from the Cornell Anthropology Collections: Lantern Slides' are believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the creation date of the underlying slides, and are presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. Glass Lantern Slides from the Cornell Anthropology Collections were digitized by Cornell University Library in 2016 for inclusion in this image collection. Please contact Frederic W. Gleach, Curator of the Anthropology Collections for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.