Shenshan Tribe

Paiwan barn

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• This building imitates and rebuilds the Paiwan barn. The barn is built in the front courtyard of the main house, with four or even eight thick columns erected. The columns are equipped with stone slabs or round wooden boards to prevent rats, and then covered with wooden beds. The wooden bed is surrounded by woven bamboo or vertical boards to form a low wall. The roof slope is extremely steep, and the thatch hangs down, almost completely covering the low wall. The rafters with a steep slope are tied with several slats horizontally to form a thick cage-like skeleton, covered with thatch to form a veranda (front, rear, left, and right slopes)-style roof that is close to a circle. The outside of the thatched roof is clamped with the same bamboo skeleton, and the upper ends are intersected to form a thousand-wood shape, which spans a bamboo beam. This nearly square but taller thatched barn is in contrast to the low and long main house made of stone slabs, forming a strong contrast.

Rukai Qulu Mythological Site-Working Hut

• This building imitates and reconstructs the working hut of the mythical ruins of Qulushe (now Jilu Tribe, Wutai Township, Pingtung County). It is one of the ancillary buildings of the Rukai Qulu mythological site. The foundation is shaped like a horizontal single room. The entrance is on the left-hand side of the house. The walls are built with stacked stone slabs, and the roof is also covered with overlapping The stone slabs are in the style of front and rear slopes. Weaving and embroidery are the specialties of Rukai women, and the Rukai working huts are built because of the taboo of weaving at home, and usually can accommodate two to three people working here. In places where Rukai women weave, men are absolutely not allowed to weave. Even if they touch the loom, it is considered unlucky. Therefore, boys are not allowed to weave and embroider, so women are not allowed to weave in their houses, and build another hut as a place for weaving.

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This building imitates and reconstructs the blacksmith hut at the mythical site of Qulushe (now Jilu Tribe, Wutai Township, Pingtung County). In the early years, the iron tools used by the aborigines mostly relied on the Han people, while the Rukai and Paiwan people would forge their own hoes or knives for farming and hunting. The Rukai are good at making knives, and they will forge the ironware in their homes into knives. They usually build a hut next to their house as a workshop for forging. Most of the blacksmith huts are open buildings, with no walls but columns, the roof is covered with thatch, and there are stoves and bellows inside the house. Knives are the basic equipment for Rukai men when they go out. They are tied around their waists with ropes and used for various difficulties, eating animal meat or making tools. Ritual knives are inserted and worn by men when they participate in important events; they are hung, and the handle and sheath are the key points of decoration, where delicate and beautiful decorations are usually applied. In particular, the ritual knives of the nobles are decorated with techniques such as carving, painting or inlaying.

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