Ladies first "The Amis had no writing, so they recorded things with images," says Lin Heng-chih (Diluo-an), who runs the Tabalong Humanities Workshop. "They would take admirable figures from legends and tribal history and carve them into tableware and sheaths of swords. They also carved puppets, which were often given to a sweetheart as a token of affection."
木雕班女人當家「阿美族沒有文字，一向都以圖像紀錄，並把神祇、值得尊敬的長者等人像刻在刀鞘及器皿上，還互贈木偶，做為男女傳情的信物… …，」太巴塱文史工作室負責人林恆智（迪洛・安）一口氣列舉木雕對族人的「十大意義」。