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Decades ago, Japanese colonists in Taiwan banned facial tattoos, decrying them as a form of mutilation. But now as activists and historians try to preserve Taiwan's fast disappearing aboriginal culture, the facial tattoo is getting respect.
Taipei, June 25 (CNA) A posthumous citation from President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) was presented at a memorial service for Ipay Wilang (林智妹), the last government-designated preserver of Indigenous facial tattoos in Taiwan in her home village of Tawsay, Hualien County on Saturday.
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...
/ Staff writer, with CNAIpay Wilang, the last surviving government-designated preserver of traditional indigenous facial tattoos, passed away on Saturday.
Taipei, June 18 (CNA) Ipay Wilang (林智妹), the last living government-designated preserver of traditional Indigenous facial tattoos in Taiwan, passed away at home in Hualien County Saturday, according to a local historian.