The items presented in this section are not prestigious pieces from major collections or noble Indigenous families. Most were personally collected and acquired by us — we have lived in Taiwan for 26 years — in Paiwan or Rukai mountain villages. These objects bear the authentic marks of daily use: the wear of a Paiwan farmer’s knife that harvested millet for decades, or the scuffs of a drinking cup dropped hundreds of times during celebrations.
Browse through this section and discover everyday objects from Taiwan’s Indigenous tribes, mostly dating from the 1940s–1950s. We have reduced certain presentation costs, such as using non-studio photography, which allows us to offer this “field collection” at very reasonable prices.