personHovak Johnston
Put traditional marks back on Inuit women from 2016
2,016 – 2,026 · The Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project
What it is
The Inuvialuk woman whose project took the kakiniit off the archive shelf and back onto skin, learning the stitch from elders.
The long version
The revival has a method as well as a date: find the women who remember, learn the stitch from them, and put the marks on people who want them — starting with the women whose grandmothers had been told to stop.
Connected to
- Kakiniit The practice.
- Stopped, and started again The pattern.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | tradition | ||
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Kakiniit — 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