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Lines on the face and hands.
Also known as: Inuit facial tattoo, Tunniit
The Inuit marking of the skin in lines and patterns, largely suppressed and now revived.
Mark the skin in Inuit tradition, the arrangement relating to region, family and the wearer's life.
Contexts: History, Public information
Suppressed under missionary and colonial pressure to near-disappearance, and revived deliberately from the late twentieth century using documentation made by the people who suppressed it — the archive of the suppression became the source for the recovery.
Contexts: History, Public information
Parallel lines and simple figures worked into the skin of the face, hands and arms, the arrangement differing by region and by the wearer's life stage.