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Title: Attush robe with light- and dark-blue stripes
Date: late 19th-early 20th century
Location: Japan
Artist: unknown Ainu
Type of art: robe; Cloth: elm-bark fiber; cotton striping, appliqué, and embroidery
Note: The Ainu (or the Aynu) are the original inhabitants of Hokkaido (Japan's northern island), Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. According to different sources, there are between 25,000 and 200,000 of them still living in Japan. However, the forced and almost complete assimilation of this people into Japanese society has led to many individuals of Ainu descent having no knowledge of their ancestry.
Source and information: Minneapolis Institute of Art
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