Qavay

First record Banzoku chosa hokokusho, Paiwan volume, 1921: "kabae", millet dough wrapped in banana leaf, and millet dumplings filled with fish, pork or crab (A); first found, read as OCR text

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), frames 78-79

  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 (frames 78-79, in ch. 3 季節行事, about pp. 90-93; the page image of this volume is not served online, so the katakana was not checked…

  Round 2. Primary, OCR text read through the National Diet Library full-text service (frames 78-79, in ch. 3 季節行事, about pp. 90-93; the page image of this volume is not served online, so the katakana was not checked against the print). On the first day of the post-harvest rite マサルド, "婦女朝ヨリ新粟ヲ搗キ男ハ筍及魚類ヲ 取リ來ル其ヨリ「カバエ」（粟粉）ヲ「パクチキ」（落花生）ト一[緒]ニ揑リテ牛ノ舌形ノ物ヲ造リ 芭蕉ノ葉ニ包ミ ... 括リ他ニ魚、豚肉、蟹、筍入ノ四種ノ粟團子ヲ造リ其ヲ鍋ニテ煑ル": the women pound the new millet from morning, the men fetch bamboo shoots and fish; then kabae (millet flour) is kneaded with peanuts into ox-tongue shapes, wrapped in banana leaf and tied, and four other kinds of millet dumplings, filled with fish, pork, crab and bamboo shoot, are made and boiled in a pot. The same page has unmarried girls carrying a millet cake "over one shaku long", wrapped in banana leaf, from house to house. Identity match: strong (カバエ = qavay; pounded sticky millet, shaped, filled, leaf-wrapped, boiled). The village heading for this passage was not recovered from the OCR; the chiefs named on the next frame match the list given for ケルクルク社 earlier in the volume.
• A

  番族慣習調査報告書 第五卷之三 (排灣族) (1922), frame 86

  Archaeological or primary source · 臺灣總督府蕃族調査會 · 1922

  Round 2. Supporting, OCR text read (frame 86): in a Paiwan village's ritual calendar the eighth day "ハ「パシアバイ」ト稱シ各家餅ヲ作リ之ヲ社口ノ廣庭ニ持來シ靈ニ 供ス", is called パシアバイ (pashi-abai) and every house makes cakes and offers them to the…

  Round 2. Supporting, OCR text read (frame 86): in a Paiwan village's ritual calendar the eighth day "ハ「パシアバイ」ト稱シ各家餅ヲ作リ之ヲ社口ノ廣庭ニ持來シ靈ニ 供ス", is called パシアバイ (pashi-abai) and every house makes cakes and offers them to the spirits at the village gate: the rite is named after the cake (avay / qavay).
• 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: 'qavay: sticky millet dumpling (with meat or other fillings inside); q/m/avay: to make qavay'. Related entries: kapalang 'glutinous millet (sp.; best for making qavay dumplings)'; ngat 'Alpinia speciosa (used in…

  Entry: 'qavay: sticky millet dumpling (with meat or other fillings inside); q/m/avay: to make qavay'. Related entries: kapalang 'glutinous millet (sp.; best for making qavay dumplings)'; ngat 'Alpinia speciosa (used in making mats, or wrapping qavay-dumplings)'; English index 'CAKE (OF STICKY MILLET): qavay'.
• S

  Mirror Media food feature, 2021-05-12; NTHU thesis record (search-result summaries)

  Secondary consensus · mirrormedia.mg; etd.lib.nthu.edu.tw · 2021

  Search summaries: Paiwan and Rukai make qavay (millet cake), djinkul (millet-taro dumplings) and cinavu; a National Tsing Hua University thesis studies qavay, cinavu and vinengel as Paiwan festival foods (page returned HTTP 403).