Ainu man who captured bear cub

Name/Title

Ainu man who captured bear cub

Entry/Object ID

1977.167.1757

Description

Negative of Ainu man who captured bear cub on Hokkaido, Japan. The bear would later become the 45th's mascot before shipping him to the Oklahoma City Zoo.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Negative

Subject Place

Island

Hokkaido

Country

Japan

Region

East Asia

Continent

Asia

Context

The Ainu are the indigenous people of the lands surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, including Hokkaido Island, Northeast Honshu Island, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula and Khabarovsk Krai, before the arrival of the Yamato Japanese and Russians.

Made/Created

Date made

1951

Time Period

20th Century, Korean War

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Negative, Sheet Film

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Negative

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Native peoples, Bear cubs, Huts