In traditional Puyuma culture, agriculture was women's work, while men were responsible for clearing land and protecting the village and hunting grounds from the encroachment of enemies. Off all the types of grains they planted, the most precious was barley, so they made the most valuable sacrifices--human heads--to the Barley God.
傳統卑南社會中，農事是婦女的工作，男人們則負責開墾，及保護部落和獵區不受外族侵犯；在所有種植的穀物中，又以小米為最神聖貴重的作物，必須用最有價值的祭物獻給米神，因此就把與外族征戰所獲得的敵方頭顱作為犧牲。