Old Vungalid Community

A Paiwan Indigenous village founded around 1540, with the name Vungalid meaning “paradise” or “world apart” in Paiwan. Residents began relocating to the present-day Wangjia Village in 1957. Two structures have been designated as heritage sites. The altar of skull (頭骨塚紀念碑) was documented by Japanese scholars in the 1930s as the largest among all Indigenous communities in Taiwan, containing 400–500 skulls stacked in a stone-walled structure. The Qaqqayaman ritual house (人面浮雕祭屋) was the village’s ceremonial center where priests would divine the coming year’s fortunes by observing water in a sacred vessel.