{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "hovak-johnston",
 "type": "person",
 "names": {
  "name": "Hovak Johnston",
  "said": "Put traditional marks back on Inuit women from 2016"
 },
 "region": [
  "arctic"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "role": "reviver"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 2016,
  "to": 2026,
  "label": "The Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Inuvialuk woman whose project took the kakiniit off the archive shelf and back onto skin, learning the stitch from elders.",
  "story": "The revival has a method as well as a date: find the women who remember, learn the stitch from them, and put the marks on people who want them — starting with the women whose grandmothers had been told to stop."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "หญิงชาวอินูเวียลูอิตผู้นำรอยสักดั้งเดิมออกจากชั้นเอกสารกลับมาอยู่บนผิวหนัง โดยเรียนวิธีเย็บจากผู้เฒ่า"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "kakiniit",
   "as": "The practice.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "revival",
   "as": "The pattern.",
   "rel": "story"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-kakiniit"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "women",
  "revival"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}