Janet McGovern lived among the aboriginal peoples of Formosa under Japanese rule and was welcomed by them with near-reverence. She describes the Taiyal and other tribes, their villages, marriage customs, religion and head-hunting, and the Yami of the island of Botel Tobago, with an introduction by the anthropologist R. R. Marett.
A rare early account of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples, valuable to readers of ethnography and East Asian history. Download the free EPUB.