During this period, apart from a few Japanese anthropologists, such as Tori Ryuzo, who had come to Taiwan and who mentioned the tattooing culture of the Atayal in their letters and writings, it was not until after Retrocession that Academia Sinica researcher He Ting-jui did research on the tattooing cultures of all the peoples of Taiwan. However, even this work did not concern the Atayal directly.
在這當中除了日據初期來到台灣的人類學家如鳥居龍藏等人，曾在其信件、著作中，零星地記載泰雅族文面文化外，一直到光復後，才有中研院研究員何廷瑞對台灣各族的文身習俗作研究，但仍不是針對泰雅族。