No tattoo, no womanhood Nowadays, when people inquire of the Atayal why they had their faces tattooed, the most common answer is, "We had to do it; otherwise, no one would marry us."
不文面，非女人如今詢問泰雅族人，為何要文面？最常得到的回答是：「非文不可，否則嫁不出去。」