{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "revival",
 "type": "story",
 "names": {
  "name": "Stopped, and started again",
  "said": "The gap, measured in years, where both ends have a date"
 },
 "region": [
  "worldwide"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "now"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Several traditions here stopped and came back. Where both ends are datable, this site subtracts them and prints the gap.",
  "story": "Fiji: one tattooist left by 1908; an artists' collective takes it up again in the 2010s. Inuit: missionaries and the schools; a revitalisation project from 2016. Māori: the 1907 Act; the resurgence from 1990. Okinawa: the 1899 prohibition; hands being marked again now.\n\nThe gaps run to roughly a century each. *Inference —* what carries a practice across a hundred years is not a book. In every case on this list the bridge is a person: the elders Hovak Johnston learned the stitch from, the seventy women Michael King interviewed in the 1970s, the museum objects the Veiqia Project worked from, and the grandmothers.\n\nA practice with no living bearer left is a different problem, and the Lanna leg tattoo is in that category.",
  "notes": "Gaps are computed from the `break` field on each tradition and shown with both endpoints, so a reader can disagree with either."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "หลายธรรมเนียมบนเว็บนี้หยุดไปแล้วกลับมา เมื่อระบุปีได้ทั้งสองปลาย เว็บนี้ลบกันแล้วพิมพ์ช่องว่างนั้นไว้"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "veiqia",
   "as": "The clearest one.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "kakiniit",
   "as": "And the best documented.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "to": "sak-kha-lai",
   "as": "And the one with nobody left to ask.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-veiqia",
  "s:wp-kakiniit",
  "s:wp-t-moko"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "inference"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "revival",
  "measured"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "hajichi",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Hajichi",
   "as": "On the revival list."
  },
  {
   "from": "kakiniit",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Kakiniit",
   "as": "The clearest datable revival in the record."
  },
  {
   "from": "veiqia",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Veiqia",
   "as": "The best-dated stop and restart on the site."
  },
  {
   "from": "hovak-johnston",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Hovak Johnston",
   "as": "The pattern."
  },
  {
   "from": "veiqia-project",
   "type": "org",
   "name": "The Veiqia Project",
   "as": "The pattern."
  }
 ]
}