Seeking the koko'ta'ay

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"Seeking the koko'ta'ay" is a documentary film based around the paSta'ay or “Ritual of the Little People” that the SaySiyat people hold every two years. South African filmmaker Tobie Openshaw follows a young SaySiyat woman, 'away maya 'titiyon, as she experiences the paSta'ay ceremony, and explores recent archaeological evidence for the little people who may have appeared in Taiwan thousands of years ago.

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Seeking the koko'ta'ay

Could Taiwan's indigenous SaySiyat’s rite of atonement for a lost tribe of little people be grounded in fact? The paSta’ay, or “Dwarf Spirit Ritual” is held every two years by the Indigenous SaySiyat people of northern Taiwan to commemorate a lost group of mischievous, dark-skinned “little people”