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Puyuma (卑南族) is one tribe of Taiwanese aborigine. A Rukai villege Chief visiting Department of Anthropology in Tokyo Imperial University during the Japanese rule. ...

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The Puyuma's Moon-shape Monolith ca. 1896
Taiwanese aborigine
Amis | Atayal | Bunun | Paiwan | Puyuma | Rukai | Tao | Truku | Tsou | Saisiyat

Babuza | Hoanya | Kavalan | Ketagalan | Popora | Basay | Qaugaut | Siraya | Taokas | Thao A Rukai villege Chief visiting Department of Anthropology in Tokyo Imperial University during the Japanese rule. ... Atayal (泰雅) is one tribe of Taiwanese aborigine. ... Bunun (布農) is one tribe of Taiwanese aborigine. ... Paiwan is the native language of Taiwan. ... The Saisiyat (true people) are an indigenous people of Taiwan, part of the larger Taiwanese aborigine ethnic group. ... Yilan County (宜蘭縣, pinyin: Yílán Xiàn) is a county in Northeastern Taiwan. ... Ketagalan is a Taiwanese aboriginal tribe originating in what is now the Taipei Basin. ...


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TiT Culture: The Tribes of Taiwan (1850 words)
Nowadays sports, symbolic fishing in the open seas, and singing and dancing are observed throughout the villages in a series of celebrations in July and August.
The Puyuma kinship system is ambilineal; while family inheritance goes to the eldest daughter, men and women share in kinship equally.
The village is an independent political unit in Puyuma society, and feuding is common among villages.
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