Parallel Worlds: Art of the Ainu of Hokkaido and Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest

June 6-28, 2009, the Portland Japanese Garden hosted a special exhibition in honor of the 50th anniversary of the sister city relationship between Portland and Sapporo, Japan. Entitled Parallel Worlds, the exhibition featured exquisitely designed traditional ceremonial robes created by Ainu artists from the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido and Native American artists of the Pacific Northwest. This groundbreaking exhibition became the first to juxtapose the textile arts of indigenous cultures on both sides of the north Pacific.

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Education

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• ceremonial
• robes
• woven
• textile
• craft
• indigenous
• native
• artists
• art
• pacific
• first
• peoples
• ainu
• sapporo
• hokkaido
• tsimshian
• ravenstail
• chilkat
• bark
• cloth
• weaving
• embroidery
• applique

[Lerdesanpe]

@TJPinoy

No, Ameridians Indians are related to Proto-Mongoloid.

[TJPinoy]

@Lerdesanpe

Orientals are Mongoloids while Indians are Caucasoid/Dravidians (strangely enough).

[Lerdesanpe]

@shannonandsheila1

Indians(Natives) are about as related to Asians, as Pakistani are related to Russians.

[Thamikaroxy]

@SuperLonewolf59 Culturally, US white Americans, Germany, Russia, China, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Argentina, Columbia, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, the Dutch, British, Saudis, Algeria, Rwanda, Burundi, and Peru are NOTORIOUS for intolerance of diversity and cultural acceptance despite the contrary reality that encourages segregation, puritanical ideologies, disenfranchisement and the ultimate ruination of a face contrary to the ideal.

[thisisusagi]

@Thamikaroxy there is a great deal of racism against darker-skinned, native peoples in Mexico. One of the reasons I'm not a big fan. I'm Caucasian, but have a cousin who looks dark/native and experienced plenty of racism growing up down there.

[SuperLonewolf59]

THANK YOU...AS WE ALL KNOW,THERE IS GOOD AND BAD IN EVERY CULTURE... BUT IT'S WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM EACH CULTURE THAT REALLY MATTERS, AS WE TRY TO LIVE TOGETHER ON THIS EARTH.... I HOPE THAT IT'S GOOD TO BE ALITTLE OR ALOT DIFFERENT....WOULDN'T LIFE BE BORING IF WE WERE ALL THE SAME????

[Thamikaroxy]

With great respect...and a splash of humor, the piece at 7:30 looks like a basic mudcloth garment and weave of squares instead of circles.

[Thamikaroxy]

@kiwiguy181 I agree! I'm a black American. 10 years ago, I went to a Mayan ruin exhibit in Mexico where the a sign read, in Spanish, no Mayans allowed. When I asked the security guard, what the signed said, he glared at me, chuckled and said that he didn't know. I was very angry and was so overwhelmed with disbelief I don't even remember whether I went in. That was all I could remember about that aspect of my trip. As a black, all the world loves our music, but hate us for being black.

[kiwiguy181]

And the sad thing is that both cultures are treated poorly, which makes me mad, because it is very different in New Zealand were i was born were the Maori are respected and both wights and native learn with each other, and through my couins cause im blood im realted to there tribe wich im proud of :) Hold tight to were you come from.

[Josephdorf03]

When I saw the little hat on Steve Bloom, I though to myself: "Yep, this is Portland!" Also, pretty impressed that the lady in charge of this can translate Japanese