Mori established a relationship of mutual trust with the Bunun people and discovered that the Aborigines possessed a great deal of knowledge of the mountains and forests, and what outsiders looked upon as superstition and taboos were actually beliefs that undergirded a normative social order.
與布農人建立互信關係的森氏發現，蕃人擁有許多山林智慧，外人眼中的迷信、禁忌，其實是規範社會秩序的信仰。