Takbanuao

Takbanuaz is a Bunun community of Taiwan's central mountains, associated with the forested valleys of the upper Zhuóshuǐ River and its tributaries. Its clans formed part of a wider Bunun world of mountain settlements and kinship. From the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, some Takbanuaz families crossed eastward into the valleys beyond the Central Mountain Range. Others remained near their older settlements along the Luándà River, while further migrations carried families southward later in the eighteenth century.