Takitudu

Takitudu is one of the Bunun communities of Taiwan's Central Mountain Range. Its villages lay among the upper valleys of the Zhuóshuǐ River, north of other Bunun groups whose settlements occupied neighbouring tributaries. Bunun families organised their lives around mountain cultivation, hunting and relationships between clans. Their songs include pasibutbut, a many-voiced prayer for the millet harvest. The communities of these high valleys were connected by paths across the ridges, and families moved over generations in search of land and new homes.