"In Inuit culture, mostly women have these face tattoos that beautify them and make them complete. It's a form of empowerment for them," Kyak explains. "It can represent them going from a girl to ...

Inuit had tattoos as a rite of passage and ... She's helped bring Indigenous face tattoos to the masses, too: Chasinghorse ...

“The face, the hands and the wrists are very popular ... designed to wipe out Indigenous culture). When DeVos and the Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project arrived in her hometown of Cambridge ...

For Inuit women, there is a whole other motivation ... Her traditional hand-poked tattoos that adorn her face, chest, arms, wrists and hands have a depth of meaning. A ‘V’-shaped tattoo ...

(Tunniit are traditional Inuit women's face tattoos.) In the video above, Deer talks about the sacredness of tattooing for Inuk women and explains how she's participating in its revitalization ...

So when I began to imagine that thick black line on my face, from lip to chin ... In recent years there has been a resurgence of facial tattoos among Inuit women across the circumpolar north.

They're getting face tattoos. Sponsor Message She has spent years cobbling together a body of knowledge about what the practice meant before European colonization of Inuit lands. The tradition ...

Painting of an Inuit woman with face tattoos, 1654. See a film by an Inuit director attempting to reclaim this tradition in “Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos.” Author unknown.