Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines

This guide opens with a flute on the second floor that visitors play through the nose rather than the mouth, an instrument the Paiwan people of southern Taiwan used for mourning and courtship. It follows businessman Lin Qing-fu, who from the 1970s spent more than two decades collecting indigenous Taiwanese artifacts outsiders barely noticed, before opening this warrior-shaped building in 1994. You'll hear about the stone panel at the entrance by Paiwan artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung, showing a hunter reading omens before setting out. Start there before moving through the more than two thousand objects gathered from Amis, Tao, Paiwan, and Rukai communities.