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View full screenPrayer stick with shaved decoration (kike ikupasuy), wooden stick with pointed end, attached shavings on upper surface, used in the Ainu bear ceremony: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century
A.1909.499.54 C
Unknown
Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia
19th - early 20th century
Ainu people (Hokkaido), Japanese
Willow wood; shavings attached
Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
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. 30 (p.72)
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