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	Search results: 2 item(s) for: "243 Cereal Agriculture"        Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. [wa0248] [Isibukun hunters, antelope and corn] 230 Animal Husbandry; 460 Labor; 410 Tools and Appliances; 220 Food Quest; 462 Division of Labor by Gender; 231 Domesticated Animals; 411 Weapons; 224 Hunting and Trapping; 240 Agriculture; 243 Cereal Agriculture According to Masagseg Jingror: ""Isibukun 施武郡 Bunun grow grain crops and sweet potatoes as their main food. Corn and millet are the common grains which they grow. Later the Japanese introduced rice cultivation to them, and rice became a popular food among them. Shown in the picture is corn-harvesting. The antelope is a hunting trophy of the three men"" (Tung 1996, p. 247). This same image, colorized, but with the Japanese caption cropped off, was still being reproduced and sold in Taiwan as late as December, 2007, under the imprint: ""[原味台湾] Aboriginal Peoples of Taiwan"". The back matter on these reproductions is trilingual: ""布農族家庭/ブヌン族一家/Bunun family."" This photo was also reproduced under the ""Taiwan Historical Postcards Series"" imprint, with the Japanese ca 2. [wa0282] [Water buffalo in a rice paddy] 240 Agriculture; 241 Tillage; 243 Cereal Agriculture; 230 Animal Husbandry; 231 Domesticated Animals Yao Tsun Hsiung writes, ""Since the basic policy of Taiwan's Japanese rulers could be summed up as 'industrial Japan, agricultural Taiwan,' it comes as no surprise that many of the animals intimately connected with farming life in Taiwan appeared frequently in official propaganda materials, where they underscored the salient features of Taiwan's agricultural product[ion]. Such familiar domestic animals and livestock as water buffalo, yellow oxen, indigenous dogs ... [etc.] figure prominently in propaganda materials....For example, postcards commemorating the 'First Mutual-Progress Fair in Southern Taiwan,' and '10th Anniversary of the Administration' all contained pictures of farmers plowing their fields behind water buffalo"" (Yao 2006, p. 62).
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