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View full screenPrayer stick (ikupasuy), wooden stick with pointed end, abstract designs carved in low relief and coated in red and black lacquer, probably carved by an Ainu craftsman then lacquered by a Japanese artisan, used in Ainu ceremonies: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th century
A.1959.54
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Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia
19th century
Ainu people (Hokkaido), Japanese
Wood; one side carved with broad red scrolls on a brown scale-diapered field
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. 130 (p.39)
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