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View full screenPrayer stick (ikupasuy), carved wooden stick with pointed end, pattern in sunk relief and owner's mark, used in Ainu ceremonies to deliver prayers: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu
A.1909.499.53 I
Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia
Ainu people, Japanese
Carved wood; pattern in sunk relief
A Scottish Physician's View: Craft and Spirit of the Ainu from the N. G. Munro Collection (26 Apr 2002 - 01 Sep 2002)
Historical Museum of Hokkaido
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
A Scottish Physician's View: Craft and Spirit of the Ainu from the N. G. Munro Collection (2002), no. 96 (p.21)