Announcement: issue the 5th Coin Set of The Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Series–AMIS on November 26, 2002
Date: 19th November 2002
Subject:
The Central Bank of China will issue the 5th Coin Set of The Taiwan
Indigenous Peoples Cultural Series–AMIS on November 26, 2002. Each set
consists of six coins in circulation（NT$ 1/2, NT$1, NT$5, NT$10, NT$20,
NT$50） as well as a commemorative medal bearing traditional Amis motifs.
Authority:
The authority is based on the Regulations Governing the Issue of New Taiwan
Currency by the Central Bank of China.
Description
The Amis, the most populous of the aboriginal groups of Taiwan, inhabit the
East Coast and longitudinal rift valley between Hualien and Taitung.
Traditionally the Amis gather in collective living styles and expand forming
larger settlements. They are skilled in farming, hunting, fishing and wild-herb
collecting. The social system is uxiro-matrilocal in which the women have the
inheritance rights for housing and properties. The men establish hierarchical
relationships based on age grading and each village forms a separate age-set
organization, which is the foundation for education, administration, military,
ritual, and cooperative production for the whole village. Major annual festivals
are held for seeding, hunting, fishing, harvest, and rites of passage rituals.