Cinavu

First record Banzoku chosa hokokusho, Paiwan volume, 1921: "chinabo", dried-taro flour and pork wrapped in leaves, given as tribute (A); first found, read as OCR text

Strongest sources

• A

  臺灣總督府蕃族調査會 蕃族調査報告書 排彎族・獅設族 (1921), frame 57

  Archaeological or primary source · 臺灣總督府蕃族調査會 (the series is usually credited to 佐山融吉; his name was not read on the scan) · 1921

  Round 2. Primary, OCR text read through the National Diet Library full-text service (frame 57 of the scan, in ch. 2 社會狀態, about pp. 48-49; the page image of this volume is not served online, so the katakana was not…

  Round 2. Primary, OCR text read through the National Diet Library full-text service (frame 57 of the scan, in ch. 2 社會狀態, about pp. 48-49; the page image of this volume is not served online, so the katakana was not checked against the print): under チャヂアフス社, the commoners must give the chief half of the harvest, and "豚ノ下顎、肝臟、心臟及「チナボ」二箇（乾芋ノ粉ト豚肉トヲ茅葉ニ包ミタル物）ヲ 同ジク頭目ニ納メザルベカラズ": a pig's lower jaw, liver, heart and two chinabo, "things made of dried-taro flour and pork wrapped in leaves" (the leaf is printed 茅葉 in the OCR). Identity match: strong. チナボ = tsinavu / cinavu, and the gloss (starchy flour and pork in a leaf wrapper, a prestige food owed to the chief) is today's cinavu, here made with dried taro rather than millet.
• A

  番族慣習調査報告書 第五卷之三 (排灣族) (1922), p. 103

  Archaeological or primary source · 臺灣總督府蕃族調査會 編 (as catalogued by the NDL; compiler's name not read on the scan) · 1922

  Round 2. Primary, page image read (frame 67, printed p. 103, in the account of the five-yearly festival): on the last night the two head families each kill a pig and make "「チナブ」（豚ノ腸ニ乾芋豚肉ヲ搗交セタルヲ詰込ミタルモノ。其大ナルモノ長二尺餘、…

  Round 2. Primary, page image read (frame 67, printed p. 103, in the account of the five-yearly festival): on the last night the two head families each kill a pig and make "「チナブ」（豚ノ腸ニ乾芋豚肉ヲ搗交セタルヲ詰込ミタルモノ。其大ナルモノ長二尺餘、 小ナルモノハ七八寸）", chinabu, "dried taro and pork pounded together and stuffed into pig's intestine; the large ones over two shaku long, the small seven or eight sun", and give the priest a pig's foreleg, four chinabu and four large sheaves of millet. Other passages of the same part price ritual services in chinabu (e.g. twelve chinabu for a healing rite, frame 40). Identity match: strong on the name and ingredients, but the casing here is intestine, not leaves; the survey is recording a sausage-like form of the same taro-and-pork food.
• A

  Paiwan Dictionary (Pacific Linguistics Series C, no. 73)

  Archaeological or primary source · Raleigh Ferrell; Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University · 1982

  Entry under tsavu (wrapping): 'ts/in/avu: qavay-dumpling wrapped in leaves; leaf wrapper for qavay'. English index: 'DUMPLING (LEAF-WRAPPED): qavay, ts/in/avu'. (Ferrell writes ts for the sound now spelled c, so tsinavu = cinavu.)

Found by research in October 2026; awaiting editorial review.

History sources are from the atlas and not yet independently checked.