The Genre Paintings of Taiwan’s Aboriginal Peoples:Atop the Watchtower
Plains indigenous settlements typically erected a lofty, open-air bamboo watchtower. With the coming of the rice harvest, unmarried young men were sent day and night to guard the crops from “aboriginal savages,” namely shengfan, that had not been “tamed” by Han Chinese influence. The rice depicted here, however, is apparently newly transplanted, which seems to contradict the inscription that only says “Guarding the Rice.”
- Item No.
- 85361
- Period
- A.D. 1744-1747
- Dimensions
- Height 40.5, width 29.5 cm
- Materials
- paper
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