著者

佐々木 史郎

出版者

北海道大学総合博物館 = Hokkaido University Museum

雑誌

北海道大学総合博物館研究報告

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, no.1348, pp.86-102, 2013-03

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In this brief paper I will discuss the socio-economic background of the changes in circulating routes of sable and silver fox fur and techniques for hunting these animals in the Circum-Okhotsk Sea region, beginning in the seventeenth century. Sable fur and silver fox fur were highly appreciated by the Chinese, Mongolians, and Manchurians, as well as the European people. According to the historical records of the Qing dynasty (the last and largest Manchurian-established dynasty in Chinese history), the dynasty imported a large amount of sable fur and silver fox fur from the present Lower Amur region and Sakhalin. Documents show that when the dynasty had just been established at the beginning of the seventeenth century, it promptly began to organize the people into "fur tribute payers." The sable and silver fox pelts were a politically and economically important strategic commodity for the people in northeast Asia. The Qing government determined that every household of the tribute payers had to pay a piece of sable fur each year, while the government gave them, in turn, a set of rewards that consisted of cotton and silk costumes and a certain amount of cotton cloth. It also decided that those who paid 304 pieces of sable fur, 2 pieces of highest quality fur (black fox), 2 sheets of carpet made of medium quality fur (yellow-blue fox) and 4 sheets of carpet of normal quality fur (red fox) were able to marry the daughters of Manchurian officers and become kin to Manchurian aristocrats. Local hunters in the Lower Amur basin and Sakhalin made every effort to develop techniques that enabled them to acquire more sable and fox in superior conditions. Fundamentally their hunting methods and tools consisted of using traps. They used nets, dead fall traps, and snare traps, which were able to capture fur-bearing animals causing little damage. No imperfection was permitted because the users were the imperial family of China. At the same time the people of the Lower Amur region quested for another way to access the fur resource. They noticed that the Japanese were eager to buy silk costumes and cloth in return for providing high quality fur, not appreciating the value of sable and fox fur. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Lower Amur region people developed trading routes from northeastern China to Sakhalin and Hokkaido and enthusiastically engaged through the Ainu in trade activities with the Japanese. Starting in this century, Japan became a fur export country. Situations drastically changed in the middle of the nineteenth century, when modern countries like Imperial Russia and modernized Japan accessed the regions. Modernism radically changed the local hunter's methods, equipment, and values of hunting for fur-bearing animals. Moreover, it changed the status of the local people from the privileged tribute payer to the poor "primitive" hunter-gatherers.

著者

ワシリェフスキー A. A. 井上 紘一 福田 知子

出版者

北海道大学総合博物館 = Hokkaido University Museum

雑誌

北海道大学総合博物館研究報告 (ISSN:1348169X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, pp.1-18, 2003-03-31

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The sites of Yuzhnaya 2, Kedrinka, Baklan and Pavlovka, very similar to each other, were discovered in 1985-1989 in southeast of Sakhalin. The Aniwa culture, dated back by 14C to 2, 710-2, 250 BP was distinguished. Supposedly, its calendar (calibrated) age should be about 500-300 BC. A complex of this culture is characterized by such features as: * a concentrated structure of the settlements at maritime sites; * subterranean type of pit dwellings of oval shape; * earth walls of houses coated with white c1ay; * fireplaces with circles of stones; * flat bottom vessels decorated by the typical Jomon pattern (oblique rope impressions), apertures on the rim, and horizontal string impressions (Aniwa type); * stone industry based on the utilization of obsidian as a main raw material for tool manufacturing; * stemmed knives and trapezoid scrapers, one angle pointed. By the complex of these features the Aniwa culture is very close to the Hokkaido cultures of Epi Jomon, and this makes us think it to be the most northern branch. The appearance of the Epi Jomon in Sakhalin is the archaeological reflection of the movement of the Paleo-Ainu tribes to the North Aniwa type pottery is different from that Epi Jomon pottery which was found in the southwest and in the middle south of Sakhalin island. The problems of the origin of Susuya pottery and of the connections between Susuya and the Epi Jomon people came into existence since the Susuya type pottery was distinguished by Professor lto Nobuo. In the 1930s and also in the 1980s and 90s some sites of Epi Jomon origin were discovered. The author proves Susuya to be a separate archaeological culture which played a role of the cultural fundament of the Okhotsk cultures, appearing in the 1st millennium AD. The Aniwa culture was distinguished as a variant of the Epi Jomon on the basis of new information in the 1980s and 90s. It is supposed that during that period different cultural groups of Epi Jomon societies were penetrating Sakhalin from the south and settled there. According to the calibrated radiocarbon dates, the peak of migration was about 5th to 2nd centuries BC. We noticed that the complexes of Susuya and Epi Jomon are situated in the same archaeological layers. It is supposed that within the ear1y Susuya time (5th to 2nd centuries BC) these two cultures coexisted in southern Sakhalin. North Sakhalin culture population (Nabil' type) was neighbor to the latter, seeing very similar to the culture of Susuya.