https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/japanesemodernism/files/original/f8d01caec4f0021574daad518bdcce37.png 01ad7ef2b513678f9465725ba477abb2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Child's Salmon Skin Coat Description An account of the resource Originally all Ainu garments were made of skin, fur, and feathers, and these types of clothing survived in Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands into the twentieth century. Salmon skin was highly prized for making strong, light, durable waterproof garments. Sakhalin Ainu decorated fishskin garments with delicate appliqué, as did their neighbors in the lower Amur River region. This child's coat has a Sakhalin Ainu cut but was collected in Hokkaido – like people, artifacts often end up far from home. This coat may have come to Hokkaido with Ainu refugees expelled when Sakhalin was turned over to the Russians in 1875. In 1896 it was sold to Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, a participant in an Amherst College expedition that came to Hokkaido to view a solar eclipse. (Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Arctic Studies Center. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived M. Todd col. 1896, Esashi, Hokkaido Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts E3390 Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Arctic Studies Center. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Ainu