Pas-ta'ai, the Ritual to the Short People, is a ritual of the Saisiyat people, a Taiwan aboriginal people of Taiwan. It commemorates a tribe of the "Little Black People" who they say used to live near to them, which some anthropologists believe may have been a tribe of Negrito

Negrito

The Negrito are a class of several ethnic groups who inhabit isolated parts of Southeast Asia.Their current populations include 12 Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands, six Semang peoples of Malaysia, the Mani of Thailand, and the Aeta, Agta, Ati, and 30 other peoples of the Philippines....

s who may have lived in Taiwan centuries ago, although there are no Negritos in Taiwan today.

External links

• BBC News: Taiwan's Saisiyat aborigines keep pas-ta'ai rituals alive