The Atayal dances are related to ordinary life, thus the tools used are utensils from daily life. The tools used include panniers, rice sifters, rice pestle, rice mortar, millets, corn, sweet potatoes, hunting knives, spears, bow and arrows, leather coats, traditional clothes, weaving machines, decorative items, trees, grass, bamboos, bonfires, gamba grass, etc. Because the Atayal people use songs to regulate the dance steps in most circumstances, there are fewer tolls used in the composition of music. Mouth harps, wood xylophones, pounding of mortar and pestle, knocking of bamboo tubes, slapping of ground with bamboo sticks, and accompaniment of wood weaving devises are used in the composition.

	Rice Sifter	Pannier
	Used for sifting millets and polished glutinous rice.	Pack used to carry items on one's back during collecting.
	Bow and Arrows	Wood Cup
	A weapon for Atayal hunting.	Drinking vessel used in everyday life.
	Woven Fabric	Wood Xylophone
	Colorful Atayal clothes are made out of woven fabric.	The Atayal wood xylophone is an essential instrument in music. It is comprised of the notes Re, Me, Sol, La.
	Warping Rack	Spear
	Atayal women often created beautiful fabric patterns using the traditional loom.	A hunting weapon
	Wood Drum	Mortar and Pestle
	The wood drum is the main rhythm instrument of Atayal music.	Used to pound millet and polished glutinous rice into rice cakes.

Summary of Traditional Dances

Myriads of Dances

Dance Tools

Passing on the Culture