Vanaku's home town is Tanlu Village in Pingtung County. Since the round-the-island highway passes through there, traditional culture has been eroding there even more rapidly than in other Paiwan villages. Vanuku has in fact long taken part in social movements to fight the decline of aboriginal culture. Therefore his carvings have a critical and reflective flavor.
伐楚古的故鄉在屏東丹路村，恰好是南回公路經過的地方，傳統文化淪喪的速度，比起其他的排灣村落，可以說是最快的；加上他早年有參與原住民社會運動的經驗，因此木雕作品中常帶有批判和反省的意味。