[1] Mayaw, extraordinaire, teacher, local cultural researcher, coach, chef, artist, painter, mapper, the list goes on. Oral memories of Fatáan, fittingly a portrait of his friendly cheerful nature.
[2] Day started out at the community centre, [3] giving a deeper briefing of the project, and [4] having a portrait session for the elders. We had 12 portraits in a span of an hour & half.
[5] Then off to the surrounding hills to get a good perspective of the valley, making some B-roll shots. [6 & 7] Finding the main river, what's left of it. The sacred river where, people of Fatáan, #Pangcah would find their stories of beginnings, for these two mountains.
[8 & 9] Squeezed in a session for [10] #LisinHaluwey just before our train back to Taipei #KantaPortraits #BeyondBorders #EdgesofMalaysia
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| [1] Mayaw |
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| [2] community centre |
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| [3] briefing of the project |
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| [4] portrait session for the elders |
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| [5] 12 portraits |
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| [6] surrounding hills |
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| [7] Finding the main river |
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| [8] Finding the main river |
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| [9] #LisinHaluwey |
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| [10] #LisinHaluwey |
Team Fatáan, Lisin (left), posak, and I. wrap up the 4th leg of the journey, with the making of the portrait of #LisinHaluwey. At our HQ, and the cafe, Lisin like many of this generation, forms an important link to carry the #Pangcah culture to a relevant future with this place and the people #BetelnutFlower #KantaPortraits #8intrepid #1interchange
*NOTE for more than a century, people of the Fatáan, Hualien District have been mistakenly referred to as #Amis, but like so many Indigenous cultures from my experience, never ever labelled or identified themselves a name, but were classified, boxed in, by the "modern" systems of anthropology/ ethnography, in this case, either by the Imperial Ching dynasty (Han Chinese Kingdom) & perhaps by the Japanese Colonialisation of Formosa. If any would be given, it is #Pangcah, the local native word for people
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| Team Fatáan |
