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Ainu man (left), and Nivkh (Gilyak) couple
The Sakhalin Island has been claimed and re-claimed and “repatriated” between Japan and Russia almost as often as the Rhineland between France and Germany. The Ainu are traditionally considered “Japanese”, and the Gilyak are traditionally considered “Russian”, but both are independent tribal cultures who had little need for such labels.
Ethnographic Description of the Peoples of Russia. Gustav-Fedor Khristianovich Pauly, 1862.
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