{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "mentawai-titi",
 "type": "tradition",
 "names": {
  "name": "Mentawai titi",
  "local": "titi",
  "local_lang": "Mentawai",
  "said": "Lines following the body, put on across a life"
 },
 "region": [
  "island-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "family": "tap",
  "status": "thinning"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1850,
  "to": 2026,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Still carried by elders on Siberut"
 },
 "practice": {
  "method": "tap",
  "ink": "soot-water",
  "placement": [
   "arms",
   "chest",
   "back",
   "legs",
   "hands"
  ],
  "marked": "both",
  "marks": "specialist",
  "status": "thinning",
  "countries": [
   "ID"
  ],
  "first_record": 1900,
  "note": "Put on in stages through a life rather than in one commitment."
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Mentawai islands, west of Sumatra: long lines laid along arms, chest and legs, added to at each stage of a life.",
  "story": "*Inference —* the Mentawai case is the clearest example of a pattern this site keeps meeting: a tradition is called dying for a century and is still there, thinner, with the elders carrying it and the state having spent decades discouraging it."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "หมู่เกาะเมินตาไว ตะวันตกของสุมาตรา เส้นยาวตามแขน อก และขา เพิ่มทีละช่วงของชีวิต"
 },
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "Mentawai people",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentawai_people"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-mentawai-people"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-mentawai-people"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "low",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "tags": [
  "initiation"
 ],
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "mentawai-titi/mentawai-titi-sikerei-full-body-portrait-traditional-tattoos-waterfall.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Sikerei-full-body-portrait-traditional-tattoos-waterfall.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Sikerei-full-body-portrait-traditional-tattoos-waterfall.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASikerei-full-body-portrait-traditional-tattoos-waterfall.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
   "author": "Andrian salis",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "Portrait of a Sikerei (Mentawai shaman) displaying traditional full-body tattoos, Siberut Island.",
   "date": "2026-08-22",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "5dd17071a6ff5cb65af75022cad19772bb44b096d06c0d7e1647682baae560cc"
  },
  {
   "file": "mentawai-titi/mentawai-titi-tato-mentawai.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Tato mentawai.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Tato_mentawai.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATato_mentawai.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
   "author": "Adhmi",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "Sikerei sedang membuat tato mentawai",
   "date": "2021-12-20 19:59:11",
   "primary": false,
   "sha256": "1d68622c04c6defe4d4709d89bcdd528c8878e7e2282250190a5ad712a159f76"
  }
 ],
 "geo": {
  "lat": -1.4,
  "lon": 99.0,
  "precision": "region",
  "source": "s:commons"
 },
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}