{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "atayal-ptasan",
 "type": "tradition",
 "names": {
  "name": "Atayal ptasan",
  "local": "ptasan",
  "local_lang": "Squliq Atayal",
  "said": "Forehead for both; a man's chin when he fathers a child; a woman's cheeks when she can weave"
 },
 "region": [
  "east-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "poke",
  "status": "dormant"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1600,
  "to": 1930,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Banned by the Japanese administration in 1930"
 },
 "practice": {
  "method": "poke",
  "ink": "soot-water",
  "placement": [
   "face",
   "chin"
  ],
  "marked": "both",
  "marks": "specialist",
  "status": "dormant",
  "countries": [
   "TW"
  ],
  "first_record": 1900,
  "break": [
   1930,
   2026
  ],
  "suppressed_by": "banned by the Japanese colonial administration in 1930, for its link to headhunting",
  "note": "A qualification, not an ornament: the face says the skill has been demonstrated."
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Taiwan: a band down the forehead, and a second mark earned — by a man for taking a head, by a woman for mastering the loom.",
  "story": "The rule was a gate. No face marks, no marriage; no face marks, no crossing to the ancestors at death. A girl learned to weave at ten or twelve and had to master it before her cheeks were marked, which makes the tattoo a certificate of competence held on the most visible surface a person has.\n\nJapan banned it in 1930. Christianity finished the job. The marks are now on elderly faces and on the museum wall."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ไต้หวัน แถบกลางหน้าผากสำหรับทุกคน และรอยที่สองที่ต้องได้มา ชายด้วยการล่าหัว หญิงด้วยการทอผ้าได้"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "chin-ming",
   "as": "Another face, another government, thirty years apart.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "Atayal people",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atayal_people"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-atayal-people",
  "s:wp-taiwanese-indigenous-peoples"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-atayal-people"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "ban",
  "women",
  "initiation"
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": 24.2,
  "lon": 121.2,
  "precision": "region",
  "source": "s:commons"
 },
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "chin-ming",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Chin facial tattooing",
   "as": "And another, banned by another government in another decade."
  },
  {
   "from": "the-timing",
   "type": "rite",
   "name": "When it is done",
   "as": "Stacked with fatherhood and with the loom."
  },
  {
   "from": "meiji-ban",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Japan outlaws it",
   "as": "And who else again."
  }
 ]
}