{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "whose-designs",
 "type": "issue",
 "names": {
  "name": "Whose designs",
  "said": "Closed motifs, earned marks, and a queue of visitors"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "none"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Several traditions on this site hold that certain designs may not be worn by people who have not earned them. That rule is theirs to state and not this site's to adjudicate.",
  "story": "Cordilleran elders hold that copying an old warrior's chest design marks a person as a killer and brings bad luck, blindness or an early death — and men who fought in the 1960s and 70s declined the marks on that advice. Kalinga inheritance rules held that tattooing could only pass down a bloodline. Sak yant carries rules the bearer keeps afterwards. *Moko kauae* is worn by Māori women.\n\nWhat this site does: state the rule where a tradition states it, name who states it, and print no design as available. What this site does not do: decide who may wear what, or rank the arguments."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "หลายธรรมเนียมบนเว็บนี้ถือว่าลายบางลายสวมไม่ได้ถ้าไม่ได้มาด้วยการกระทำ กฎนั้นเป็นของพวกเขา ไม่ใช่ของเว็บนี้ที่จะตัดสิน"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "kalinga-cordillera",
   "as": "Where the rule is stated plainly.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "whang-od",
   "as": "And where it was changed, from inside.",
   "rel": "person"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-batok",
  "s:wp-whang-od",
  "s:wp-cultural-appropriation"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-batok"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "start-here"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}