{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "deq",
 "type": "tradition",
 "names": {
  "name": "Deq",
  "local": "deq",
  "local_lang": "Kurdish",
  "aliases": [
   "daq",
   "vesm"
  ],
  "said": "From Syriac dyoqo, puncturing"
 },
 "region": [
  "west-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "poke",
  "status": "thinning"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": -500,
  "to": 2026,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Older than the three religions of the region; now mostly on elderly faces"
 },
 "practice": {
  "method": "poke",
  "ink": "soot-milk",
  "placement": [
   "face",
   "chin",
   "neck",
   "hands",
   "feet",
   "chest"
  ],
  "marked": "women",
  "marks": "women",
  "status": "thinning",
  "countries": [
   "TR",
   "IQ",
   "SY",
   "IR"
  ],
  "first_record": 1900,
  "note": "Soot mixed with breast milk is the reported ink; a V on the face could say the tribe."
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Kurdistan: marks on women's faces, hands and feet, for protection, for health, and to say which tribe.",
  "story": "The word comes from Syriac *dyoqo*, puncturing — another tradition that names the tattoo after the movement of the needle. A male tattooist is *deqqak*, a female one *deqqake*; the practice predates Christianity, Yazidism and Islam in the region, and rules attach to it, including who may not receive it."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "เคอร์ดิสถาน ลายบนใบหน้า มือ และเท้าของผู้หญิง เพื่อคุ้มครอง เพื่อสุขภาพ และเพื่อบอกเผ่า"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "words",
   "as": "Another word for tattoo that means to puncture.",
   "rel": "finding"
  },
  {
   "to": "amazigh-marks",
   "as": "The neighbouring tradition across North Africa.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "Deq (tattoo)",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deq_(tattoo)"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-deq-tattoo",
  "s:wp-kurds"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-deq-tattoo"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "women",
  "protective"
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": 37.5,
  "lon": 42.5,
  "precision": "region",
  "source": "s:commons"
 },
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "soot-milk",
   "type": "ink",
   "name": "Soot and milk",
   "as": "Where it goes."
  }
 ]
}