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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 13213792, member: 8267&quot;]I should not have limited the comparison to form lines. There are other similarities as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>All these from the British Museum -[ATTACH=full]561355[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]561357[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]561358[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And some other types of artifacts -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]561360[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]561372[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]561366[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]561368[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]561375[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Burke Museum at the University of Washington in Seattle has arranged some cultural exchanges between some Northwest Coast tribal representatives and the Ainu. A Makah representative noted that - </p><p>&quot;The most striking thing to me is there are so many similarities between us,” she said. “They, of course, hunt for land and sea mammals much in the same way we do. The implementation of how those are used in their material culture is also interestingly similar.” She said that at the museums [in Japan], she viewed clothing and bags made of elm bark that are much like those the Makah once made of cedar bark. “I was also really interested in how they also made shoes out of salmon skin,” she said. “They crafted roses out of salmon skin and they look very similar to how some of our artists make roses out of cedar bark.”</p><p><a href="https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/2010/04/06/cultural-exchange-makah-representative-sees-similarities-with-ainu-of-japan-during-visit/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/2010/04/06/cultural-exchange-makah-representative-sees-similarities-with-ainu-of-japan-during-visit/" rel="nofollow">https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/2010/04/06/cultural-exchange-makah-representative-sees-similarities-with-ainu-of-japan-during-visit/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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