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Another exhibit is of the Ainu tribe on Yezo Island in the Japanese archipelago. These people live under Nipponese rule in an environment similar to the State of Maine's but dislike the Japanese intensely and would probably be friendly to an Allied expeditionary force. The main pastime of this race seems to be in getting inebriated on the local brands of beer and wine, and one of the most prized objects in this collection is a beard cleaner which the Ainu use to brush their beards free of liquor. Another object prized by the Peabody is the mummified body...
First inhabitants of Australia, Birdsell said, appear to have been a pigmy people, some 20,000 years ago. Later comers, according to the theory, were a primitive, hairy, white strain from south-eastern Asia, related to the hairy Ainu, of Japan; and a third, dark-skinned people, with thick brow ridges, bearing a relationship to certain peoples found in India, and Ceylon...
Folk Lore Club.At the meeting of the Folk Lore Club, last night, Mr. Hisa furnished several tales illustrating the religious myths, as well as some of the present customs of the Ainu race of Japan. Mr. Newell then gave many interesting comments on general folk lore...