Ipay Wilang, the last surviving government-designated preserver of traditional indigenous facial tattoos, passed away on Saturday.
She died at her home in Hualien County, said Kimi Sibal, a Hualien-based historian who cowrote a 2016 book on Taiwan’s then six remaining indigenous facial tattoo preservers.
Ipay Wilang, a Sediq, had returned to Hualien earlier on Saturday after being discharged from a hospital in New Taipei City, said Lo Mei-ching (羅美菁), head of the New Taipei City Indigenous Peoples Department.
She had been living with her eldest daughter in New Taipei City and was taken to Tucheng Hospital on Friday after she became unwell after
/ Staff writer, with CNAIpay Wilang, the last surviving government-designated preserver of traditional indigenous facial tattoos, passed away on Saturday.
Student film about Dafen Incident wins top prize
By Hung Chen-hung
and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A student film on the Dafen Incident on Tuesday won the top prize at the Ministry of Education’s Aboriginal film festival.
Made by students at I-Shou University, War of the Moon (月戰) won the grand prize at the seventh Mata Awards, the ministry said.
Director Huang Hsiao-ching (黃孝擎), a university student of Bunun descent, said he decided to make the film after fellow Bunun students proposed shooting a movie on the Bunun historical experience during a short-film class.
Hu Chia-yu, second right, director of the documentary Sino nagran mo? and members of the production team pose at a location on Orchid Island in an undated photograph.