inkIndigo
คราม
The plant blue: Ainu mouths, Chin faces
What it is
Pigment from the indigo plant, used by the Ainu and reported for the blue lines on Chin women's faces.
The long version
Ainu and Ryukyuan tattooing both use indigo rather than soot, in islands where indigo dyeing is also the textile tradition. The same plant, the same vats, a different surface.
Connected to
- Ainu anchi-piri Where it goes.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Irezumi — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Irezumi — Wikipedia (en)
- Ainu people — Wikipedia (en)
- Indigo dye — Wikipedia (en)
- Tattooing in Myanmar — Wikipedia (en)
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