Group portrait of Ainu, Ezo (modern Hokkaido)

Group portrait of Ainu, Ezo (modern Hokkaido)

1875 - 1895

color prints (photographs)

Japan; Ainu

An image of a group of Ainu people from the island of Ezo, later renamed Hokkaido. Turner has added the inscription, "These are Ainos or Ainus-the aborigines of the Japanese islands. There are now about 17000 of them all living in the northern island of Yezo. The men resemble the Jews; and like many other peoples, 'they are supposed to be the lost tribes of Israel.'"

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