After much weeping and gnashing of teeth trying to get paperwork filled out and right, so as to have my trip next week approved I became a little obsessed with my archival research and almost didn’t stop staring into the computer monitor. I have updated the website and found many new examples of Inuit and [...]

Filed under: Algonquian tattooing, Early North American Indigenous Tattoos, Facial Tattooing, Inuit Tattooing, James Teit, Skin Stitch Tattooing

Another Piece done by John Weber as part of Captain Cooks explorations, this one is of a Aleut woman with Facial Tattoos.

Filed under: Aleut Tattoos, Early North American Indigenous Tattoos, Facial Tattooing, Tattooing by Hand

While searching the Library and Archives Canada, I came across these prints by John Weber the artist for Captain James Cook. They are representations of Nootka Facial tattoos.

Filed under: Early North American Indigenous Tattoos, Facial Tattooing, Nootka Tattoos

I am just beginning my second week of research project that is searching for primary source documents of my ancestors tattooing practices, the Nlaka’pamux. As I search the online archives it has been proving difficult to find specific photos that reference my ancestors I have uncovered as few that are records of other nations.  I am hopeful that when I get into the actual [...]

Filed under: Early North American Indigenous Tattoos, Facial Tattooing

While searching the BC Archives digitized photos under the keyword Indian I found this amazing photo of a Kootenai woman with facial tattoos. I’m so pumped to be able to bring these photos out of the archives for all to enjoy and hopefully educate people about the tattooing traditions that have existed here in North [...]

Filed under: Early North American Indigenous Tattoos, Facial Tattooing, Kootenai Kootenay Tattoos

I’m so excited to have been awarded an Undergraduate Research Award which means I will be spending my summer researching Nlaka’pamux tattooing and being paid to do this research. I will be spending many hours searching and looking through photos at Museums and Archives as well as reading journals written by settlers, missionaries, fur traders etc to look for any evidence [...]

Filed under: Decolonization, Facial Tattooing, Identity, James Teit, Nlaka'pamux (Thompson Indian) Tattooing, Skin Stitch Tattooing, Tattoo Revival, Tattooing by Hand, Uncategorized

While searching the Canada Archives website I found these amazing paintings by John Verelst, the first painting is entitled. Sagayenkwaraton (baptized Brant). Named Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, King of the Maquas (Mohawk)  It depicts a Mohawk King with an amazing example of the rich history of Tattooing in North America among its Indigenous peoples. [...]

Filed under: Cultural Capital, Facial Tattooing, Identity, Lars Krutak, Tattoo Revival, Tattooing by Hand

After digging a little deeper at the Canadian Library and Archive I found some more Photos, you can access these pictures at   http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca.

Filed under: Facial Tattooing, Inuit Tattooing, Skin Stitch Tattooing, Tattooing by Hand

As I was researching online the other day I found these amazing photos taken in 1937 by the Photographer Donald B. Marsh. They Were taken at Eskimo Point, N.W.T., [Arviat (formerly Eskimo Point), Nunavut] and I found them at the Canadian Library and Archive. I found some other also at the Canadian Library and Archive, these are [...]

Filed under: Facial Tattooing, Inuit Tattooing, Skin Stitch Tattooing, Tattooing by Hand

This is the article which brought me to the connection with the Inuit and Northern peoples, which brought me to find Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and her documentary. This article shows some Nlaka’ pamux facial tattoos, which are accounted in “Tattooing and Face and Body Painting of the Thompson Indians British Columbia” by James Teit. http://www.larskrutak.com/articles/Thread_Needle/index.html

Filed under: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Facial Tattooing, Inuit Tattooing, James Teit, Nlaka'pamux (Thompson Indian) Tattooing, Skin Stitch Tattooing, St Lawrence Island, Tattooing by Hand, Yupik