Because the tattoos of the Atayal were closely bound up with their tradition of hunting heads, beginning in 1914, every time the Japanese subjugated a tribe, they first tried persuasion to get them to stop, before enforcing a ban on facical tattooing.
由於泰雅族的文面文化與獵首習俗間有著緊密的關係，從西元一九一四年開始，日人每在控制一個部落之後，先是勸戒，再來便是強迫禁止文面。