I previously posted an article about the story of Yaari Kingeekuk a Yupik artist who lives and works in Alaska as a cultural teacher and educator, and who is embodying her culture with traditional tattoos. I have gained her permission to post a few photos of her. Another Indigenous person in the process engaging the hegemonic ideal of beauty by tattooing [...]

Filed under: Cultural Capital, Decolonization, Identity, Inuit Tattooing, Skin Stitch Tattooing, St Lawrence Island, Tattoo Revival, Yupik

This is another article about the tradition of  skin stitch tattooing among the Indigenous peoples of St Lawrence Island. http://www.larskrutak.com/articles/Last_Tattoos_SLI/index.html At the end of this article he talks about the dying tradition, check out my next post and see it being revived.

Filed under: Identity, Lars Krutak, Skin Stitch Tattooing, St Lawrence Island, Tattooing by Hand, Uncategorized, Yupik

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

Here is an article by the tattoo anthropologist Lars Krutak, it is concerning the skin stitch tattoos of the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic. http://www.larskrutak.com/articles/Arctic/index.html You can check him and his work out at http://www.larskrutak.com

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