Chin line tattoo

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traditional hand tapped Alifuru female chin tattoo markings, Alalihunu meteta. photo by Rachel Tauran

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I've written a bit about my journey of coming to a homeostasis with my identity before in this blog, and now I have taken a pretty big step in that journey. A couple months ago I walked into tattoo parlor and asked to have my chin tattooed. I have actually wanted traditional Inupiaq women's tattoos since I was a freshman in college. After taking an introductory anthropology course where there was one page in the text book dedicated to our little culture it got me curious. What other things…

traditional hand tapped Alifuru female chin tattoo markings, Alalihunu meteta. photo by Rachel Tauran

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Hand poke seam line tattoo by horseforest, via Instagram. #horseforest #handpoke #sticknpoke #linework #seamline #line #seam #chin #jaw #jawline

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Both men and women can have this chin tattoo but red with white for woman and black with white for man.

Artiste : Karoo_dame

The needle is steel, not a sliver of bone. The thread is cotton, not reindeer or whale sinew. And rather than soot, lampblack, or gunpowder, the pigment is black ink. But though her materials are modern and sterilized, when Greenlandic tattoo artist Maya Sialuk Jacobsen hand sews a traditional design on the face of fellow Inuit women, she is helping them reclaim a vital part of their cultural history that dates back at least 5,000 years.