page_title: Taivoan people
section_title: Embroidery
hierarchical_section_title: Taivoan people / Culture / Arts and crafts / Embroidery
caption_attribution_description: English: The traditional cross-stitched patterns of indigenous Taivoan people from Xiaolin, Kaohsiung. 中文（台灣）‎: 小林村大武壠族的傳統十字繡圖紋。
context_page_description: The Taivoan or Tevorangh people or Shisha, also written Taivuan and Tevorang, Tivorang, Tivorangh, are an indigenous people in Taiwan. The Taivoan originally settled around hill and basin areas in Tainan, especially in the Yujing Basin, which area the Taivoan called Tamani, later transliterated into Japanese Tamai and later borrowed as Chinese Yujing. The Taivoan historically called themselves Taivoan, Taibowan, Taiburan or Shisha as endonyms.
  According to some scholars, there should be more than 20,000 Taivoan people nowadays, estimated based on the records during Japanese rule of Taiwan, ranked as the second largest non-status indigenous people in Taiwan, only second to Makatao people.
  Many scholars propose that the name of the island Taiwan actually came from the indigenous people's name, as the pronunciation of Taivoan is similar to Tayovan, the people that the Dutch met around the coast of Anping or the bay around Anping, which later became the name Taiwan. Also the Taivoan established a settlement called Taiouwang, which is the only indigenous community that sounds like Taiwan.
context_section_description: Embroidery is one of the most notable handicrafts of Taivoan people, unique by its variety of decorative patterns and colours, and making a significant cultural identification different from indigenous peoples nearby, e.g. Cou, Bunun, Rukai, and Siraya.
  Some common patterns found in Taivoan embroideries are:
  Square or diamond shapes
  Thistle flowers (Taivoan: ayxaw)
  Extended diamond shapes
  Straight lines and mountain shapes
  Abstract geometric shapes
  Geometric flowers and leaves
  Geometric human faces and figures
  Insects, birds, and snakes
  Human-in-boat shapes
  Other geometric shapes like swastikas
  The thistle flowers in Taivoan embroidery are the most unique, not seen in any other Taiwanese indigenous arts. Some local Taivoan people believe the thistle flower patterns stand for Cirsium lineare (Thunb.) Sch. Bip native to Jiaxiang, Kaohsiung, and some say they are globe amaranths (Gomphrena globosa L).
caption: Taivoan embroideries displayed in a local exhibition in Xiaolin at the Night Ceremony
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