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Atayal women of the Wushe Group pounding millet

NCL Special Collection / 4680 / (N/A) / About 1930s / 《Faces of the Century (Part II)》

The mortars and pestles of the Atayal people in Nantou area are different from those in Hsinchu area. A sieve by the wooden pestle is filled with unhusked millet.