The anthropologist Frederick Starr travelled to the island of Yezo, now Hokkaido, to recruit a group of Ainu for the living exhibits of the 1904 Saint Louis World’s Fair. He narrates the journey, describes the families who came and their life at the exposition, and sketches Ainu customs and the Japanese scholars who studied them.
A revealing record of how world’s fairs displayed living peoples, written with the anthropological assumptions of 1904. Download the free EPUB.