Abstract
Taljimaraw Sauniyaw (?–?), daughter of the Rarukruk chieftain of the Paiwan peoples, was married to the local military leader, namely yishou 義首, Lin Wanzhang 林萬掌 (1819–1858) of the Hengchun area in the mid-19th century. Owing to his premature death, Taljimaraw Sauniyaw took charge of Lin family’s trading company and inherited Lin Wanzhang’s influence as a local leader, hence leaving records within historical documents of the late Qing dynasty. Taljimaraw Sauniyaw’s tomb was found and her physical remains were ritually relocated to Lin’s ancestral tomb in 2010. This paper researches the material culture of the excavated funerary objects and addresses issues related to Taljimaraw Sauniyaw, illustrating certain unknown aspects of the life of this remarkable woman who was able to occupy her place in local history, despite being largely invisible behind male figures, and who represented certain harmonious interactions between the indigenous and Han Chinese peoples.
Keywords
Rarukruk; Taljimaraw Sauniyaw; funerary objects; Lin Wanzhang
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