A family of leaders Bakalefa is Tsao's Aboriginal family name, and belongs to one of the two leading families of the tribal village of Ssulin, in Pingtung County's Mutan Township. This village sits beside the Kangkou River, protected by their ancestral totem-a hundred-pace viper-and the gods of Mt.
「巴卡勒法」是曹明生的傳統姓氏，也是屏東縣牡丹鄉四林村的兩大頭目家族之一，部落座落屏東縣港口溪旁，受百步蛇祖靈與四林格山神的庇佑。