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Folklore and Oral Traditions
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Aino Folk-Tales — Basil Hall ChamberlainBasil Hall Chamberlain presents fifty-four Ainu narratives and belief notes collected in Hokkaido, with an introduction by Edward B. Tylor.Specimens of Ainu Folk-lore — John BatchelorTwelve Ainu legends and folk-songs of Hokkaido, collected and translated by the missionary John Batchelor with his verse-by-verse ethnographic commentary, published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1888–1893.