Aboriginal Head Hunters
Note: These pictures may reflect the consequences of increased Japanese activity in the highlands.
Japanese officers often used Aborigines to fight their local rivals, with various incentives.
The headhunter wearing a belt with cartridges was photographed by Mori Ushinosuke in August 1904,
just after a bloody Japanese instigated massacre of Wushe area Atayal by Bununs allied with the police.
That is to say, these postcards may reflect a sort of danger, but not necessarily a danger to outsiders.
The other photos are staged and required cooperation due to the slow shutter speeds of the time.
(~thanks historyguy)
1912 Article
