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traditionHlai women's marks

黎族 · Chinese

Face, throat and legs, by lineage

Parts of this record are marked as needing verification.
PokedMethod
DormantStill done?
womenWhose skin
womenWho marks it
Where it goesface, neck, legs, arms
NotesHainan island; the pattern differed by lineage group.
InkSoot and water
Years between1950–2026 (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
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedHlai people — 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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