Formosa/Taiwanese austronesian tribal

[yuanzhumin]

Hello everybody

I’m very happy to announce on this forum that the website dedicated to my collection of Taiwanese austronesian artifacts is finished and online. There are weapons, sure, but also eveything else I collected from the material culture of these people.

I have already displayed some of the blades and weapons from this collection on the forum. If you are interested, you can see all of them now.

I will just add that so little is known about Formosan/Taiwanese aboriginal groups outside academic circles and that there are only a few sources of information avalaible on them, and even less on their material culture. Books are rarely published on the subject and, if so, mostly in Chinese.

Taiwanese aboriginal people are much more than merely representative of the island on which they live – they are the origin of the Austronesian civilisation that swept across the whole Pacific, from the Philipines to Easter Island.

While some few museums and other private collectors around the world have gathered items from these people, they however seldom display them. Not me. I want to share what I know about these people and promote their culture.

So, you are most welcome to see for yourself at http://www.formosatribal.com

Thanks
yuanzhumin/Nicolas Grevot