Thursday, June 19, 2025

18 June 2025 Sapporo: Hokkaido Botanical Gardens Museums

 


There are a few museums on site at the Botanical Gardens.  The first was a museum of the Northern Peoples located in the main office building.   The second was a natural history museum located in a historic building from 1882.  This is Hokkaido's oldest museum and both the building and the glass display cases are designated "National Treasures."  Inside are taxidermized animals including the only existing specimen of the Ezo wolf and a husky that went on an expedition to the South Pole



Old time instruments


Seal skin boots and jacket




Water shoes


A jacket make from bird skins


Arrows and spears


Bows


A snare


Crab necklace


Daily utensil when you are cooking for a big crew


A fancy belt


Another kind of trap


How the huts were made


An old stump with the tree rings counted back to 1787



The National Treasure building


The only Ezo wolf specimens 


Seal beast


Another unique bird specimen


Long nose 


A big grouse


The glutton


Puffin


Rhino auk


The difference between the carrion crow and the large billed crow


Stellar sea eagle


A huge black woodpecker


A tall drink of water




  It has been 3 years and 13 days since we began our Migration