“If Only It Makes Them Pretty”: Tattooing in “Prompted” Inuit Drawings
Alternate Title
Si seulement ça les rendait jolis: Les tatouages dans les dessins inuit incites
« Si seulement ça les rendait jolis » : Les tatouages dans les dessins inuit « incités »
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jamie Jelinski
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Arctic Collections and Museology: Presentations, Disseminations, and Interpretations, 2018, pp. 211-241
Description
Discusses the cultural practice of tattooing among Inuit women and the way that Indigenous artists preserved knowledge of the practice post-contact through an appropriation of Western materials and drawing practices.