traditionKayan tattooing
tedak · Kayan
Women's forearms and thighs, worked over years
| Where it goes | arms, hands, thighs, feet |
|---|---|
| Notes | Tattooed by women, for women, over several years and several sittings. |
| Ink | Soot and water |
about 1,850 – 2,000 · Hose and McDougall describe the full sequence in 1912
2.8000, 114.0000 · OpenStreetMap
What it is
Upriver Borneo, where the tattooists were women and the work went on a woman's forearms, thighs and feet across years.
The long version
Hose and McDougall set down the sequence, the fees and the taboos in 1912 — which is why a practice that thinned out is describable at all, and also why the description is an outsider's. The Kayan of Borneo are not the Kayan of Myanmar; the names collide and the peoples do not.
Connected to
- Iban tattooing Downriver, and mostly men's.
Named here by
- Iban tattooing Upriver, and mostly women's work.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, Vol. II — scanned by the Internet Archive | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Kayan people (Borneo) — Wikipedia (en)
- The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, Vol. II — scanned by the Internet Archive
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