findThe Qilakitsoq women
Greenland, about 1475 — facial marks under infrared
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about 1,460 – 1,490 · About 1475
What it is
Mummified Inuit women from north-west Greenland, five centuries old, with facial tattoos visible under infrared.
The long version
They are the physical evidence behind a practice that missionaries later ended and that Inuit women have now taken up again. The revival is not reconstructing something imagined; there are faces.
Connected to
- Kakiniit The tradition.
Named here by
- Kakiniit The oldest Inuit faces that survive, and they are marked.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | tradition | ||
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there