Abstract
This is a report about the collection which Mr. Hiroshi TERADA had purchased and has been stored in the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples. This collection is composed of Ainu artifacts and books related to northern indigenous peoples. Mr. TERADA was born in 1933 in Niigata prefecture, and graduated from the department of veterinary, Hokkaido University in 1957. He worked at the Nichiro
Fur Co., ltd. a mink farm in Abashiri as an executive from 1960 to 1993. He had been interested in Ainu Culture and collected a lot of artifacts and books from antique or souvenir shops and used-book stores. He passed away in 2003. Most of his collection was sold and donated to the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples.
