Ainu Culture

We visited the Ainu museum this morning, "Ainu" is an Ainu word means human. Right now, Ainu means the indigenous people of Hokkaido with their own culture and language who lived in Hokkaido, the northern part of Japan's Tohoku region, southern Sakhalin and Chishima Island. The Ainu people used to hunting and fishing for live and they also trade with other races from the Honshuu Island or mainland. This is interesting to me, because Ainu is similar to some Chinese indigenous people and I always like to know different culture.
The most culture I want to know is how they treat birth and death. The Ainu believe although the birth of a child was considered as a happy occasion, there is no any special celebrations for birth. They believe, a newborn child does not have much resistance after the birth which means if parents dress up their child and congratulate the birth, the bad spirits would do something bad and the child would fall sick. This is interesting, because of my experience, most of culture would celebrate the birth of child, however Ainu is different from those culture.
However, the death of Ainu is similar with other cultures. Ainu people believes that when a person died, his soul would go to another world beyond death and he would live a similar life as he dead before. As a result, other Ainu people alive would buried something for the dead people, so they would not suffer any type of inconvenience in the world beyond death. This is similar to most cultures, when people dead, others would buried stuff or burn stuff for the dead person.
I would say this is always interesting for me to learn how the birth and death of a different original culture. This way would help me think more about human's birth and death and learn why human is alive. This experience helped me learn about where I am came from and where I would go in the future.

(The Statue of Chief)