Of the nine tribes that still exist today (thus excluding the plains tribes that have already become completely sinified), there is documentation of tattooing among six: the Atayal, the Saisiyat, the Paiwan, the Rukai, the Tsao and the Puyuma.
在台灣各非漢系少數民族族群的傳統中，除了已經漢化消失的某些平埔族之外，在近代九個族群中，可以考據出有「文身」習俗的族群，分別是泰雅、賽夏、排灣、魯凱、鄒、卑南等六族。