This woman is suspected of having a strain of pigmy blood. Note difference of features, and difference in the shape of head and face.
AUTHOR’S SECRETARY MAKING NOTES OF TAIYAL DIALECT.
CHAPTER VI
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
Head-hunting and associated Customs—“Mother-right” and Age-grade Systems—Property Rights—Sex Relations.
The social organization of the Formosan aborigines presents many points of interest, but the four which most forcibly impress the visitor or student of aboriginal customs, and which, taken together, constitute a somewhat unique system, are the following:
| (a) | Head-hunting and the point of view of the tribes-people regarding this custom. |
| (b) | “Mother-right” more fully developed than is usual, even among primitive people, at the present time. |
| (c) | The Communal System—that of holding property in common—which exists among several of the tribes. |
| (d) | The Chastity and Strict Monogamy customary among these “Naturvölker”; habits which strikingly impress one who goes among them after having spent some time in China or Japan, or in the Chinese and Japanese towns and villages in the “civilized” part of the island. |