In this picture, the Thao women playing pestle music is combined with a picture of a passenger ship, and the postcard was published by the Osaka Merchant Ship Company. It shows that some aboriginal customs have become commercialized and taken as an image for an advertisement of a steamer company to attract Japanese customers to come to Taiwan on their ships. The name of the ship in the picture is “Murasaki Maru”.
Thao women playing pestle music 3
- NCL Special Collection / 4320 / Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha/Printed by Kanda Printing Company in Osaka / About 1920s / 《Faces of the Century (Part II)》