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Kakiniit. An Inuit woman in 1945 with traditional face tattoos. Kakiniit (Inuktitut: ᑲᑭᓐᓃᑦ [kɐ.ki.niːt]; sing. kakiniq, ᑲᑭᓐᓂᖅ) are the traditional tattoos of the Inuit of the North American Arctic. The practice is done almost exclusively among women, with women exclusively tattooing other women with the tattoos for various ...
Traditionally girls of the Hän Gwich’in receive their first tattoos between the ages of 12 and 14, often at first menstruation. [1] [3] [2] Missionaries of the 1800s and 1900s banned the traditional practice along with other cultural traditions. [3] [2] [4] Starting in the 2010s, some indigenous girls and women began to reclaim the tradition ...
Tā moko is the permanent marking or "tattoo" as traditionally practised by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is one of the five main Polynesian tattoo styles (the other four are Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian). [1] Tohunga-tā-moko (tattooists) were considered tapu, or inviolable and sacred. [2]
A face tattoo or facial tattoo is a tattoo located on the bearer's face or head. It is part of the traditional tattoos of many ethnic groups. In modern times, although it is considered taboo and socially unacceptable in many cultures, [1][2] as well as considered extreme in body art, [3] this style and placement of tattoo has emerged in certain ...
TikToker Shina Novalinga (@shinanova) got a traditional tattoo with her mother in honor of their Inuit heritage. Novalinga is an Inuk throat singer, activist and influencer who’s amassed a large ...
Indigenous influencer Shina Novalinga shared her emotional tattoo journey on TikTok. Inuit TikToker goes with mom to get traditional tattoos: ‘Normalize Indigenous facial tattoos’ Skip to main ...
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril MSC (born May 9, 1978) is an Inuk filmmaker, known for her work on Inuit life and culture. She is the owner of Unikkaat Studios, a production company in Iqaluit, which produces Inuktitut films. She was awarded the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross, in 2017 in recognition of her work as an activist ...
In Inuktitut, the Inuit language of the eastern Canadian Arctic, the word kakiniit translates to the English word for tattoo [37]: 196 and the word tunniit means face tattoo. [34] Among the Inuit, some tattooed female faces and parts of the body symbolize a girl transitioning into a woman, coinciding with the start of her first menstrual cycle.