{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "qilakitsoq",
 "type": "find",
 "names": {
  "name": "The Qilakitsoq women",
  "said": "Greenland, about 1475 — facial marks under infrared"
 },
 "region": [
  "arctic"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "ancient"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1460,
  "to": 1490,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "About 1475"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Mummified Inuit women from north-west Greenland, five centuries old, with facial tattoos visible under infrared.",
  "story": "They are the physical evidence behind a practice that missionaries later ended and that Inuit women have now taken up again. The revival is not reconstructing something imagined; there are faces."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "มัมมี่หญิงชาวอินูอิตจากกรีนแลนด์ตะวันตกเฉียงเหนือ อายุห้าศตวรรษ มีรอยสักบนใบหน้าที่เห็นได้ด้วยอินฟราเรด"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "kakiniit",
   "as": "The tradition.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-kakiniit",
  "s:wp-mummy"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "tags": [
  "archaeology",
  "women"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "kakiniit",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Kakiniit",
   "as": "The oldest Inuit faces that survive, and they are marked."
  }
 ]
}