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Ipay Wilang, the last surviving government-designated preserver of traditional indigenous facial tattoos, passed away on Saturday. She died at her home in Hualien County, said Kimi Sibal, a Hualien-based historian who cowrote a 2016 book on Taiwan’s then six remaining indigenous facial tattoo preservers. Ipay Wilang, a Sediq, had returned to Hualien earlier on Saturday after being discharged from a hospital in New Taipei City, said Lo Mei-ching (羅美菁), head of the New Taipei City Indigenous Peoples Department. She had been living with her eldest daughter in New Taipei City and was taken to Tucheng Hospital on Friday after she became unwell after

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