Motif
age-marked female tattooing and adornment
age_marked_female_tattooing_and_adornment
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
inuit
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The Central Eskimo THE SLEDGE AND DOGS. / HABITATIONS AND DRESS. / THE HOUSE. / CLOTHING, DRESSING OF THE HAIR, AND TATTOOING.; lines 6116-6129 confidence: medium
Women adorn their faces by tattooing, done around twelve years of age by soot-covered needle and thread under the skin or by puncture with instruments rubbed with Fucus juice and soot or gunpowder, producing a blue color.
The passage links women's tattooing with adornment, an approximate age of twelve years, specified techniques, blue pigment, and repeated body locations or patterns.
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