Ethnological Artifacts (National Taiwan University)

Type

Collection

Collection Identifier

c0018

Description

These ethnological images are field-based photos from the Taihoku Imperial University Ethnoarchaeology Seminar period and the National Taiwan University Department of Anthropology period. The main content covers not only various ethnic groups and their living situations across Taiwan, but also images of the Hainan Island Li people and artifacts from around Oceania. So far, our department has completed sections on the Pingpu, Atayal, Saisiyat, Bunun, Tsou, Thao, Rukai, Paiwan, Amis, Beinan, Dao, Li people as well on indigenous peoples of Oceania, among other areas. Currently, our collection houses more than 2000 artifacts, including traditional aboriginal tools and clothing, such as housing pillars, wooden pillars, statues, knives, wooden plates, bowls, pipes, beaded clothing, leather caps, embroidery, ritual pots and hunting tools. Some representative living utensils from different ethnic groups in the Hainan Island, Southeast Asia and the Pacific region have also been collected.

Size

1109 (physical objects/specimens)

Language

Chinese; Japanese 

Item Type

Physical object 

Item Format

image/jpeg; image/tiff

Rights

link

Access Rights

Users can freely browse, access and download clearly marked material from this website according to regulations defined by intellectual property laws, for personal and non-commercial use only.

Accrual Method

Purchase; donation

Accrual Periodicity

Irregular 

Accrual Policy

Closed 

Custodial History

The National Taiwan University Department of Anthropology’s collection can be traced back to 1928, when the Ethnoarchaeology Seminar was established at Taihoku Imperial University. The components, primarily gathered between 1920 and 1960, include over 10,000 articles of quotidian commodities, ritual utensils, and field images of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples, and hundreds of thousands of prehistoric artifacts unearthed at various archaeological sites in Taiwan. Since 2002, the Department has been a member of the National Digital Archives Program and has been in the process of digitizing and re-identifying its collection components—a process that confers a multifaceted significance upon cultural heritage in an information society. 

Audience

Researchers; the general public

Subject

Ethnology; anthropology; Taiwanese aborigines; Li people in Southeast Asia; Oceania

Spatial Coverage

Taiwan; Hainan Island; Oceania

Temporal Coverage

1920s/1960s

Dates Collection Accumulated

1920s/1960s 

Dates Items Created

1920s/1960s 

Collector

Ethnoarchaeology Seminar, Taihoku Imperial University; Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University

Owner

Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University

Is Located At

Exhibition Hall of Ethnological Artifacts

Is Accessed Via

link: http://www.darc.ntu.edu.tw/newdarc/darc/index.jsp

Sub-Collection

Pingpu people; Ketagalan; Kavalan; Taokas; Pazeh; Siraya; Hoanya; highland aborigines; Atayal; Saisiyat; Tsou; Bunun; Rukai; Paiwan; Puyuma; Amis; Yami; Thao; Li

Super-Collection

Anthropology

Associated collection

Ethnological Photos (National Taiwan University); Ethnographic Collections of the Taiwanese Indigenous People (National Museum of Natural Science); Archeological Collections in Central Taiwan (National Museum of Natural Science)

Associated Publication

胡家瑜、崔伊蘭主編(1998)。臺大人類學系伊能藏品硏究。台北:台大出版中心。