Women with various chin tattoos, ca. 1890s. Among the Shasta, Achumawi, Atsugewi, Klamath, Maidu, Wintu, Karok, and Tolowa deer hoof dance rattles were given to female initiates to …

Mar 31, 2013 · Maidu tattoos were made by puncturing the skin with bones, pine needles or bird bones, and then a red pigment was rubbed into the skin. Men could also be decorated with …

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CALIFORNIA INDIGENOUS CHIN TATTOOING - California Indian Chin Tattooing

With regards to Maidu tattoos, a different approach was taken. The skin was pricked with pine needles or bird bones, and then red pigment was rubbed into the wound.

Among those featured are the tattoos of an 1800s Natsilingmiut Inuit woman whose tattooed thighs ensured that her children would be greeted by something of beauty upon their entrance …

Use these stories to learn about the tradition of chin tattooing, its historic roots in California, and some of the challenges that recipents of this indelible marker of identity have to endure before …

The ceremonies that were performed by the Nisenan/Maidu people focused on nature, resources, their gods, their origin, and their ideals. Ceremonies often featured dances with elaborate …

Mar 5, 2014 · And along the Pacific coast, the Maidu tribe used tattoos for fashion alone. As Alfred L. Kroeber has pointed out in the Handbook of the Indians of California (1919): The …

Article about the history of tattooed tribes of California & the American Southwest by tattoo expert Lars Krutak, Cultural Anthropologist and Technical Advisor to the Vanishing Tattoo