In unpublished interview transcripts, Ma Teng-yueh records that Baliagi Nogan, who lives in Jen-ai Rural Township in Nantou County, says that when she was a teenager, her fellow tribe members were fighting the Japanese, and they had to move all the time. Her father was deeply afraid they might lose the struggle, and she would never have the chance to have her face tattooed.
馬騰岳在他尚未發表過的訪談資料中也指出，有位居住在南投仁愛鄉的巴裡奇說，當她少女未文面時，正值部落為反抗日本人而戰鬥，族人得隨時遷徙，居無定所。