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  2. Yidiiltoo - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally girls of the Hän Gwich’in receive their first tattoos between the ages of 12 and 14, often at first menstruation, as a passage ritual. [1] [3] [2] European and British missionaries of the 1800s and 1900s banned the traditional practice, along with other cultural traditions. [3] [2] [4]

  3. Kakiniit - Wikipedia

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    An Inuit woman in 1945 with traditional face tattoos. Kakiniit (Inuktitut: ᑲᑭᓐᓃᑦ [kɐ.ki.niːt]; sing. kakiniq, ᑲᑭᓐᓂᖅ) are the traditional tattoos of the Inuit of the North American Arctic. The practice is done almost exclusively among women, with women exclusively tattooing other women with the tattoos for various purposes.

  4. Religious perspectives on tattooing - Wikipedia

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    Tattoos hold rich historical and cultural significance as permanent markings on the body, conveying personal, social, and spiritual meanings. However, religious interpretations of tattooing vary widely, from acceptance and endorsement to strict prohibitions associating it with the desecration of the sacred body.

  5. Albanian traditional tattooing - Wikipedia

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    Edith Durham, who extensively studied Balkan traditional tattoing with fieldwork research, was able to thoroughly explain the patterns of traditional tattoos only after asking to Albanians of Thethi–Shala for a description of all the little lines (or twigs) that accompanied a semicircle incised on an old gravestone. They answered that those ...

  6. Albanian paganism - Wikipedia

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    Albanian traditional tattoo patterns: 19th century (top), early 20th century (bottom). They are symbols of the Sun and the Moon ; the cross (also swastika in some tattoos) is the Albanian traditional way to represent the deified Fire – Zjarri, evidently also called with the theonym Enji. [12]

  7. Yantra tattooing - Wikipedia

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    There are thousands of traditional designs of yantra tattoos, but some of the most well-known and popular include: Ong Phra ( Thai : องค์พระ ; translation: Buddha's body ) - one of the most commonly used elements in Yantra tattooing, but can also be a more complex standalone design.

  8. Sicanje - Wikipedia

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    The custom of tattooing young girls and boys died out after World War II with the establishment of the FPR Yugoslavia, and tattoos done by the traditional method are now only seen on old women. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Today, there is a growing trend of modern tattoo artists utilising the traditional designs with contemporary tattooing methods in Croatia ...

  9. History of tattooing - Wikipedia

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    The traditional male tattoo in Samoa is called the pe'a. The traditional female tattoo is called the malu. The word tattoo is believed to have originated from the Samoan word tatau, coming from Proto-Oceanic *sau₃ referring to a wingbone from a flying fox used as an instrument for the tattooing process. [67]

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