【Pictures：Sandy／Words：Jenny, Elsa】

　　Ethnology Collections of Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, are mostly from Chairman Safe C.F. Lin's generous donation of his private collection on Taiwan aboriginal artifacts purchased in recent 20 years from Taiwan and oversea places such as Japan. After the establishing the Museum, there were some aboriginal friends, who comprehended Mr. Lin's ideal and ways of doing, donated their family's ancestral treasures to the Museum. In addition, there were some entrepreneurs, who had received cultural artifact gifts from Chairman Lin, returned those artifact gifts either before or after the establishment of the Museum as they understood Mr. Lin's passion on culture and education. There are currently 1866 cultural artifacts in the Museum, and 193 photograph taken by Torii Ryuzo were donation from University of Tokyo. In order to carefully preserve these precious collections the preservation room of the Museum is equipped with constant temperature control and moisture-resistant measures. All internal interiors are made of Vietnamese cypress, the storing cabinets are made of American aromatic cedar and carbon-dioxide fire-fighting equiptment for complete protection on artifacts.

Paiwan short shirt	Paiwan glass beading

　　Apart from collecting Taiwan's aboriginal artifacts , Mr. C.F. Lin is also an art lover. Mr. Lin had given out many of his long-preserving art collections while also donating aboriginal artifacts to the Museum. Now these collections have become the cultural property to the Taiwan society. There are currently 319 art collections include oil painting, sketching, glue-coloring and ink painting, water-color painting, multi-media, photographs.

Paiwan ceremic pot	Painting Collections Area

　　To see more collection, please come to the museum and take a look yorselves. (source: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines)