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Atayal people harvesting rice

NCL Special Collection / 4004 / Printed in Tokyo, Japan / About 1910s / 《Faces of the Century (Part II)》

Atayal people grew dry rice and millet on hills. When harvesting, they bundled the rice stems with ears, such as the person in the photo on the right. They stored such harvest bundles in their barns.