traditionHlai women's marks
黎族 · Chinese
Face, throat and legs, by lineage
| Where it goes | face, neck, legs, arms |
|---|---|
| Notes | Hainan island; the pattern differed by lineage group. |
| Ink | Soot and water |
| Years between | 1950–2026 (76) |
about 1,300 – 1,950 · Ended in the mid-twentieth century
19.0000, 109.6000 · OpenStreetMap
What it is
Hainan: Hlai women marked on face, throat, arms and legs in patterns that told one lineage from another.
The long version
Chinese records notice tattooing among non-Han peoples as far north as the Yangzi in the first millennium, which is the same body of record that the Southeast Asian traditions on this site appear in — as somebody else's custom, seen from outside.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Hlai people — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Hlai people — Wikipedia (en)
- Hainan — Wikipedia (en)
- Yantra tattooing — 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