Traditional Ainu clothing was made with animal or fish skin, or woven with tree bark or nettle fibres (Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images) ...

How traditional clothing, ... 100 years ago or more, going to Hokkaido, they will be able to recognize that, ‘Oh, that person is Ainu,’ a native of this island, ...

The film features scenes of Sachiko Kibata teaching students the Ainu language and helping them rehearse for speech competitions, Reiko Kayano teaching sewing lessons for traditional Ainu clothing, ...

The event began at around 11 a.m. as participants connected with the Sapporo Ainu Association gathered in a traditional Ainu dwelling known as a "cise." Donning ethnic clothing, ...

Between 2020 and 2022, about 2,000 salmon per year were allowed to be taken by all Hokkaido Ainu for traditional and cultural reasons. ... but their skin was used to make clothes, shoes, and bags.

The traditional Ainu ritual of Kamuynomi is performed at the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park in Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on May 3, after Ainu people’s remains are returned from Britain.

Amanai revived traditional Ainu salmon fishing over a decade ago, a practice nearly lost to modernity, part of his efforts to do what he can to preserve and pass on his people’s ways.

Man in traditional dress from La Gomera in Spain’s Canary Islands, ... In “Rare Tongues,” she explores languages teetering on the brink of oblivion, including Ainu, ...

The ranks of the Ainu have shrunk so low that in the last official survey, taken in 2017, only 13,118 people identified as Ainu in Hokkaido, which has a total population of about 5.2 million.