Indigenous Tribes That Survived the Times
| September 29, 2017
5. Ainu – Japan
The Ainu people have been around since the 1200s and were originally a tribe of hunter-gatherers, who survived by hunting bears and fishing salmon. There are now officially 25,000 Ainu people, though the government estimates there could be up to 200,000, as many have assimilated with the Japanese society.
Men stop shaving their beards and mustaches after a certain age and women tend to wear mouth tattoos, which they start from a young age. Their traditional dresses, which are robes called attusi or attush, are spun from the bark of elm trees.
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