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TAIPEI AIR STATION |
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Several Paiwan men and women clear a rocky hillside for planting. The various aboriginal tribes in Taiwan were progressively forced into the foothills and mountains by the more numerous settlers that arrived from China as farm laborers beginning with the Dutch colonial period in the 1600s. As such, the aboriginal tribes people were hunters and |
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Women from the Tayal (also known as Atayal) aboriginal tribe pose in their colorful aboriginal clothing alongside a woman in traditional Taiwanese clothing and a man in a western suit in this 1950s photograph taken in north central Taiwan. |
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A prominent feature of many aboriginal tribes were facial tattoos. In this c.1957 photograph taken near Neiwan, up in the mountains east of Hsinchu, a tattooed aboriginal woman shows her pipe smoking ability to be every bit the equal of the man seated beside her. These people are part of either the Saisiyat or Tayal (Atayal) tribe. |
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Many smaller towns and villages in Taiwan also had walls around them. This section of wall and the gate through it are in the town of Tsoying, just to the north of the major city of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, Tsoying was the location of the main Nationalist Chinese Navy and Marine Corps bases in Taiwan. Military personnel and farm workers barely give each other a glance in this 1958 photograph. |
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Rural areas also received large amounts of relief supplies from American missionaries in the 1950s. My mother, Ruth Aandahl, is surrounded by men, women and children as relief goods are distributed out of the back of our family vehicle. This photograph was taken in c. 1955 in a village outside of Hsinchu. |
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Editor Note: Here is a map depicting the approximate location of Aborigine Tribes in Taiwan Click HERE to visit the Map. |
