Bear skulls set up for worship
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- Bear skulls mounted on the top of nusa in an Ainu village during the late Meiji period Bear skulls set up for worship. After the feast, which has a religious significance, the skull of the baer is set up on a forked post decorated with whittled wands ( inao ), and is worshipped at subsequent feasts.
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