Lantern slide of a group of three Ainos, the aborigines. The Ainu (also called Aynu, Aino and in historical texts Ezo), are indigenous people or groups in Japan and Russia. Historically, they spoke the Ainu language and related varieties and lived in Hokkaid?, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin. Part of Box 158 Japan, part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 16