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Hualien Mlips Elementary School (2003 CyberFair Project ID 2893)
Taiwan,
Hualien
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 13 student(s) from 11 to 13 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Hualien, the place that we live, is the county with the highest proportion of the aboriginals in Taiwan, and is surrounded by the circumstance full of art and culture flavor. Our school located in the downtown of the city still has many students from indigenous families. However, not many students know well the meaning and content of aboriginal culture. In fact, the aboriginals have showed many their special talents and achievements in art and music fields. With the impacts from civilization, these glorious parts in their culture had been forgotten gradually and even lost in our society. Therefore, this project will introduce the Atayal weaving to discover the beauty of weaving art in our aboriginal history.
Project Description: As coming to Hualien, many tourists were attracted by the weaving works. Weaving is one of the earliest art in the indigenous history. Among the ten tribes of Taiwan aborigines, Atayal tribe is famous for the weaving art. Atayal weaving and plaiting techniques can be distinctly classified into male and female working. The male working includes bamboo and rattan plaiting. The female working means cloth weaving. For a long time, these techniques, especially as for cloth weaving, had played the important roles in the Atayal art history. Under the impacts of civilization, this weaving art is facing the crisis of fadeout. This project plans to let people find out the Atayal history of cloth weaving, the material, the processes of leaning, and the culture inheritance, by exploring the cloth weaving in the Atayal art. In addition, with the high unemployment among the aboriginals in Taiwan, the project may become a way to know this weaving culture, and let the aboriginals, who want to have the weaving technique as the second skill, gain their opportunities to learn.