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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 Indigeno...

/ Staff writer, with CNAIpay Wilang, the last surviving government-designated preserver of traditional indigenous facial tattoos, passed away on Saturday.

Taipei, June 18 (CNA) Aljalju rulelavan (湯瑞葉), one of the few preservers of the Indigenous Paiwan women's hand tattoo tradition, has passed away at the age of 93, the Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) said Saturday.