Qauqaut people

Nationally Recognized Locally recognized Unrecognized The Qauqaut (Chinese: 猴猴族; pinyin: Hóuhóuzú) were a Taiwanese Indigenous people who lived primarily in the town of Su-ao in Yilan County.

[1] According to oral tradition from various Atayal villages, the Qauqaut originally settled in the middle portion of the Takiri River (Wade–Giles: Liwuhsi).

[2] Early modern Chinese documents on the Kavalan territories reported that the Qauqaut were linguistically and culturally distinct from the other Formosan ethnic groups and that they did not intermarry with the other communities.

[3] Taiwanese linguist Paul Jen-kuei Li hypothesised that, in about 200 BCE, the Qauqaut migrated from Southeast Asia to the Marshall Islands and the Caroline Islands and in around 1000 AD arrived on the east coast of Taiwan, based on his linguistic comparison with the nearby Taroko (Seediq) language of Taiwan, which he said varies greatly from the Qauqaut.

[5] The Qauqaut bury the dead in a sitting position, like those of neighbouring villages in southern Kavalan territory.