拔牙中的鄒族人

[英文]Tsou adult males; two are standing and removing tooth from squatting male. Men are wearing trademark skin caps. Segawa and Yuasa write: @At the age of fifteen to twenty, the Tsou extract some of their teeth....They extract the upper eye teeth and the incisors, four in total. This is for beautification and to attract the opposite sex. The pulled teeth are put under the bed for longevity@ (Yuasa 2000, p. 39). Tsou men are usually pictured in one of a variety of types of leather headgear with chin straps, some with feathers attached wa0056 wa0327, intricate embroidery wa0054, with leather tails wa0021, with bear fur wa0149 or with back-flaps (shown here). Segawa and Yuasa write: @leather headgear is made from the tanned skin of the bardking deer (ta$cu, Muntiacus reevesic micrurus). It is put on for celebration, or to symbolize a chief. Unmarried men are not allowed to put on leather headgear. For men$s use @(Yuasa 2000 p. 43). The man receiving the operation is also pictured by Segawa in wa0056, which puts him in Tapangu village between 1929 and 1935.