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  2. Category:Tattoo designs - Wikipedia

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  3. History of tattooing - Wikipedia

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    In Inuktitut, the Inuit language of the eastern Canadian Arctic, the word kakiniit translates to the English word for tattoo [37]: 196 and the word tunniit means face tattoo. [34] Among the Inuit, some tattooed female faces and parts of the body symbolize a girl transitioning into a woman, coinciding with the start of her first menstrual cycle.

  4. Tattoo - Wikipedia

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    A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing processes and techniques , including hand-tapped traditional tattoos and modern tattoo machines .

  5. Category:Tattooing - Wikipedia

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  6. American traditional - Wikipedia

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    Tattoo design with a naval theme, c. 1900–1945. Many old school motifs derive from tattoos popular among military service members, including patriotic symbols, such as eagles and American flags, along with pin-up girls. [2] Other old school tattoo designs include: Mermaid; Swallow (sometimes confused with sparrows and bluebirds) Heart; Anchor ...

  7. Sailor tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Protection papers for American seafarers between 1796–1818 provide an important source of information about older tattoo designs. [ 5 ] : 523 Along with the United States coat of arms , Masonic lodge symbols, hearts, and religious symbols, nautical images were popular: anchors, mermaids, whales, ships, the mariner's compass , and the ...

  8. Irezumi - Wikipedia

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    Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.

  9. Kakiniit - Wikipedia

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    The root kaki-also means tattoo in Inuvialuktun (Western Canadian Inuktitut). [5] The Proto-Inuit word *tupə(nəq) 'tattoo' is the etymology of Eastern Canadian Inuktitut tunniq 'woman's facial tattoo'. This might go back to Proto-Inuit-Yupik-Unangan *cumi-n 'ornamental dots'. [6]