Carving Connections: Ainu Ritual Carvings and Landscape in Northern Japan
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UAH Campus – Wilson Hall 168
Huntsville, 35899
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Dr. Susan Dine of Vanderbilt University will explore how ritual libation sticks (ikupasuy) were widely collected from the Ainu, the Indigenous peoples of northern Japan, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Brooklyn Museum, for example, has over one hundred of these carved wooden sticks, also called prayer sticks for their function of relaying messages to deities. Though small, these objects are richly visual and enhance our understanding of the diverse ways humankind has expressed their relationship with nature. Drawing on archaeological findings and Ainu oral histories and traditional knowledge, this talk explores how art, environment, and movement activate both object and personal intention.
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