Today, I had the privilege of being invited to write a guest post for OLD SALT BLOG.
It is about the Lanyu canoes I studied at museums in Taipei, and the local experts I interviewed.
Here I am with one of those experts, the charming Liao Hong-ji, a fisherman, author, conservationist and adventurer.
The whole conversation was in Chinese (except for my answers to translated questions, and my questions, also translated) -- and we were talking about the Great Migration, and Tupaia's canoes.
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Which museums had the Lanyu boats?
Which museums had the Lanyu boats?
There were two museums in Taipei where we looked at the boats. One was Evergreen. That one is a wonderful maritime museum, with all kinds of vessels and ship paintings, some memorabilia. It's a private museum, set up by the Evergreen shipping company. I blogged about it:
http://joan-druett.blogspot.co.nz/2015/03/evergreen-maritime-museum.html
The other was the museum of the indigenous people, right across the road and to the left a bit of the National Museum. The Lanyu boats were on the ground floor.
I have just remembered that there are two museums to the aboriginal people. One is the cultural museum. The one with the boats is the Shung Ye Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shung_Ye_Museum_of_Formosan_Aborigines
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