The Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples houses one Ainu garment and one Tamasai (Ainu necklace) which were donated by one of the Ainu people, SHIBA Haru (birth date unknown -1963) to a researcher, TANIMOTO Kazuyuki (1932-2009).
The author has been conducting research on local photographs taken in Hokkaido, particularly taken in the Oshamambe area. Our research group including the author has confirmed that the photographs and the postcard's pictures from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to around the 1950s show not a few scenes of rituals and commemorative photos shoots of the Ainu people of Oshamambe wearing traditional garments.
In this paper, the author first shows photographs of these two materials as above from the museum and then identifies each artifact by the photographs. Thus the author clarifies the areas where the materials were used, the approximate dates of use, and the wearing situation of Ainu people including the donor. In addition, the auther argues that there is a close relation between the materials of the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples and the Ainu clothing collections of Oshamambe town regarding their situations in which they are used by cross-referencing and analyzing the materials and the photographs.
