Identifier: inuttermosteastb00hawe (find matches)
Title: In the uttermost East, being an account of investigations among the natives and Russian convicts of the island of Sakhalin, with notes of travel in Korea, Siberia, and Manchuria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Hawes, Charles Henry, 1867-1943
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Publisher: London, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of tattooing, which savour of thesouth, and we know by history and the old Ainu place-names in the south of Japan that they have been drivennorth thence to the island of Yezo. Probably the originof the Sakhalin Ainus must be sought either in the flightof refugees from Yezo on the imposition of the Japaneseyoke, or the early and original migrations of the race fromthe mainland (now the Primorsk). They themselves, like their brethren in Yezo, have alegend that a pit-dwelling race were in possession beforethem ; and they point to the scooped-out holes and kitchen-middens which are near their own villages of Siraroka andTikmenev, on the east coast of Sakhalin. In these havebeen found obsidian and diorite implements, and claypotsherds. The Ainus have not been known to makestone implements, and diorite and obsidian do not as faras we know exist on the island. Moreover, the Ainusdisclaim the knowledge and art of making clay vessels,and call the dwellers in these holes the Tontchi or Toichi.
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THE ISLAND OF SAKHALIN 115 In Ainu toi means clay, and chi baked or dried, i.e.0 Makers of baked clay vessels. In recent years we have been continually meeting withfurther evidence of the existence of prehistoric dwarf racein our own land and elsewhere. Kamchatkan legendsseem to indicate the comparatively recent (400 years)existence of a dwarf people in that peninsula, and if thatbe so, then further links are added to the chain of pigmiesstretching from Africa to Behring Straits, through theAndaman Islands, the Malay Peninsula, Formosa, Yezo,Sakhalin and Kamchatka. Of the origins of the other three tribes it is almostas difficult to conjecture as of the Ainus. The Tungus,so-called, we may class as the most backward—the wildestoffshoots of the race, of which the Manchu is the mostcivilized representative to-day, the people that has givenChina her reigning dynasty for the last two and a halfcenturies. A thousand years ago, according to Chineserecords, these tribes were beyond the limi

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