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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.

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Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedIrezumi — Wikipedia (en)
text_thinferencewritten 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

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