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episodeStopped, and started again

The gap, measured in years, where both ends have a date

What it is

Several traditions here stopped and came back. Where both ends are datable, this site subtracts them and prints the gap.

The long version

Fiji: one tattooist left by 1908; an artists' collective takes it up again in the 2010s. Inuit: missionaries and the schools; a revitalisation project from 2016. Māori: the 1907 Act; the resurgence from 1990. Okinawa: the 1899 prohibition; hands being marked again now.

The gaps run to roughly a century each. Inference — what carries a practice across a hundred years is not a book. In every case on this list the bridge is a person: the elders Hovak Johnston learned the stitch from, the seventy women Michael King interviewed in the 1970s, the museum objects the Veiqia Project worked from, and the grandmothers.

A practice with no living bearer left is a different problem, and the Lanna leg tattoo is in that category.

Notes

Gaps are computed from the `break` field on each tradition and shown with both endpoints, so a reader can disagree with either.

Connected to

Named here by

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultinference
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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