Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples houses the “ Hattori Collection ”, which includes a lot of materials of Attu dialect of Aleut (Unangan) language and Aleut culture. Takeshi Hattori (1909-1991), a linguist who was well-known as the expert of the Nivkh language, researched the Aleut language in 1943 at Otaru city in Hokkaido, Japan. In those days, all Aleuts of the Attu island were interned in Otaru because of Aleutian Islands campaign between the Japanese and U.S. Army.
This paper reveals Hattori's grammatical study of Aleut by transcribing and editing several materials (T-140, T-227-1, and T-227-7). These materials are handwritten memorandums and mainly focus on Aleut grammar. These materials differ from each other in phonetic notation and writing style, indicating that there may have been more than one author besides Hattori. Determining who the authors other than Hattori were is a matter for future study.
We edited these materials and added the editors' notes. These materials will support our understanding of Hattori’s study and future studies of the Aleut language.

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In the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation, horse and cattle herding has been the traditional livelihood of the Sakha (Yakut), the main ethnic group. These herding practices have continued to be an important industry in the Republic despite major social and economic changes. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the changes in the number of horses and cattle kept in the Sakha Republic since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
First, I examined the changes in the number of horses and cattle kept in the Republic. In 1990, the number of horses and cattle in the Republic was about 200,000 and 410,000, respectively. Then, the numbers of both species declined sharply, but as a result of an increase in the number of horses bred since around 2005, the number of both species in recent years has been about the same at around 180,000.
Second, an overview of the number of horses and cattle by management system shows that the proportion of agricultural organizations, which had been the main agents in both species until 1990, declined to about 20% in 2019. In addition, as of 2019, peasant and household farms accounted for about the same proportion of horse breeding, while household farms were twice as large as peasant farms for cattle.
Thirdly, the number of horses and cattle by district revealed that a large proportion of both were raised in the central Yakutia region and the Viluy River basin. However, there were differences in the pattern of fluctuations in the number of both species in different regions. In the Central Yakutia region, the number of horses in 2019 averaged 123.1% of the 1990 level, while the number in the Viluy River basin was 68.3% of the 1990 level. In the Central Yakutia region, the number of cattle in 2019 was 55.2% of the 1990 level, while the number in the Viluy River basin was 41.0% of the 1990 level, indicating a significant decrease.
Based on the statistical data, this report outlined the differences and changes in the number of horses and cattle by management system and district. However, we have not yet been able to establish the causes of these changes and differences. In the future, more detailed information and analysis of different indicators will be necessary.

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As part of the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples research project on the prehistoric period in 2021, I conducted a survey on Okhotsk Culture of Okushiri Island from July 6 to 8, 2021. On July 6, I conducted a field survey of the Miyatsu and Aonae Sand Dune sites, which are Okhotsk cultural sites, and on July 7 and 8, I observed the excavated materials, mainly pottery. Here I would like to report on the results of this research and give some insights into Okhotsk Culture of Okushiri Island, which remains largely unexplored.
The fact that the Okushiri Island-specific characteristics are frequently observed in the application techniques of Okhotsk type pottery, and that they continue to be observed from the Towada type period to the Chinsenmon type and Early Haritsukemon type periods, suggests that the Aonae Sand Dune site was not a seasonal camp for the northern Hokkaido group, but one of the settled centers of Okhotsk Culture period in the southern Hokkaido Sea area. The formation of this site is thought to have been a result of pottery production. As shown by the pottery, the formation of this base is thought to have started in the Susuya type period, or the stage of the establishment of the Okhotsk Culture. As for the Susuya type pottery, it appears to be of a type commonly found in the Hokkaido region, so the theory that Sakhalin Island was the camp site of a group with a mother village there is also untenable. In addition, there are no traces of large settlements on Sakhalin Island that could have been the mother village of seasonal migration during the Susuya and Towada type periods. The excavation of jar-shaped pottery unique to the eastern part of Hokkaido from the Aonae Sand Dune site indicates that the Okhotsk people of Okushiri Island interacted not only with groups in the northern part of Hokkaido, but also with groups in the eastern part of Hokkaido, and that this site, with its good natural harbor, functioned as a base for exchange.

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Paleo-Asiatic refers to non-Altaic and non-Uralic languages. At present, Chukchi Kamchatkan and Eskimo-Aleut are language families, while Nivkh and Ainu are isolate languages. Manchu-Tungusic languages are concentrated in the Amur River basin (only Even, Uilta, and Sibe are entirely outside it). The Manchu-Tungusic basic protolanguage split up about two thousand years ago in the area, the center of which was probably the Lesser Khingan Range. It makes sense to distinguish three historical Manchu-Tungusic language varieties: basic, intermediate, and final protolanguages.
Lexical borrowings from Paleo-Asiatic languages are 1) in some modern Manchu-Tungusic languages (exclusive borrowings from Yukaghir and Chukchi-Kamchatkan in Even, from Nivkh in Negidal and Uilta, from Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages in Udege), 2) in the Amur-Sakhalin area languages (borrowings from Nivkh), 3) borrowings from Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages in the ancestor of Evenki, Even, Negidal, and Solon, 4) borrowings from Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages in the Manchu-Tungusic intermediate protolanguage, to which go back Oroch, Udege, Evenki, Even, Negidal, and Solon, 5) in the basic Manchu-Tungusic protolanguage there might be one lexical borrowing from the ancestor of the Nivkh language.
Early contacts between the Manchu-Tungusic languages and the Chukchi-Kamchatkan languages were over several centuries, probably somewhere in the basins of the northern tributaries of the Amur River.
With a very limited number of lexical borrowings from the Paleo-Asiatic languages into the Manchu-Tungusic ones, the borrowing of some words belonging to the basic lexicon seems surprising.

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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.

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Prof. IKEGAMI Jirō (Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University; 1920-2011) is a linguist who conducted extensive studies on northern languages from the 1940s to the 2000s. He made remarkable contributions especially to the study of the Tungusic languages. Many of his published works are descriptive studies on Manchu and Uilta (formerly known as Orok) among the Tungusic languages.
Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples has a collection of Prof. IKEGAMI's former library materials, donated by his bereaved family. This collection is called Ikegami Bunko.
The present article provides a list of all 158 notebooks in the Ikegami Bunko that he used in his research and studies. In cases where the contents are related to Prof. IKEGAMI's publications, the references have been added so that they can be checked against them. This is the first step in making the contents of Prof. IKEGAMI's notebooks widely known, and it aims to provide clues for those who are interested to access the notebooks in future. It is hoped that further information will be added through future research and studies.

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　2021年1月1日から2021年12月31日までの間に発行された、北方地域に関する単行本、論文、研究報告、翻訳、一般雑誌記事、新聞記事など印刷物になったもの、インターネットに掲載されたものを著編者自身から受けた情報をもとに掲載している。またこれまでの補遺にあたるものも掲載している。

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