（臺灣）紋面的太魯閣族少女

[英文]According to Masegseg Jingror: @Tattoo marking is a common practice among the...Atayal. For women, having tattoo marks on one$s face and body means three things: First, it is a symbol of reaching maturity. Second, it indicates that she is a person capable of weaving. And finally but not the least, when they pass away they can recognize the spirits of their ancestors in heaven through the design of the tattoo marks. Besides, tattoo marks were believed to have magical power which enabled them to avoid evil forces. But more importantly, tattoos are marks of their identity indicating to which tribe they belong@ (Tung 1996, p. 152). According to Zhuang (2001), this photo is from the 1930s (p. 68). This same colorized image, with the Japanese caption cropped off, was still being reproduced and sold in Taiwan as late as 2007, under the imprint: @原味台湾 Aboriginal Peoples of Taiwan@. The back matter on these reproductions is trilingual: @泰雅族太魯閣群美少女/タイヤル族タロコの美少女/Toroko maid.@