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> View Lars' Tattoo Bibliography On a crisp fall morning in 1997, a small aircraft carried me from Nome across the Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Island, Alaska (Sivuqaq). Landing on a gravel landstrip, I exited the plane to begin my first research project focusing on indigenous tattooing practices and the women who created them. Since then, the tradition of tribal women's tattooing has been dying out around the world at an alarming rate. For example, the 2,000-year-old custom of Yupik tattooing on Sivuqaq died in 2005 along with its final two practitioners. And in 1998, the last living Ainu woman in Japan with tattooing passed away leaving behind an indelible custom that some scholars believe was 10,000 years old. For these reasons alone I have crisscrossed the globe to document the rapidly vanishing art form of tribal tattooing; one that, until recently, has traveled on living bodies for millennia. Of course, my new book The Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women and the articles listed below would have been impossible without the support and tutelage of numerous indigenous elders and historians I have worked with over the last decade. In fact, many of these individuals encouraged me to explore more deeply the complex symbolism of indigenous tattooing practices before it began to disappear from view. To these elders and their families, I extend my appreciation and deepest gratitude. Lars Krutak Making Boys into Men: The Skin-cutting Ritual of the Kaningara Tribe of Papua New Guinea NEW! Dinembo: Forbidden Tattoos of the Makonde of Mozambique NEW! The Kayabi: Tattooers of the Scarification and Tattooing in Benin: The Bétamarribé Tribe of the Atakora Mountains NEW! Titi: Spirit Tattoos of the Mentawai Many Stitches for Life: The Antiquity of Thread and Needle Tattooing Tattooing in the Gran Chaco of South America Tattooing Among Japan's Ainu People Crest Tattoos of the Tlingit and Haida of the Northwest Coast Tattooing and Piercing Among the Alaskan Aleut The Mundurucú: Tattooed Warriors of the Amazon Jungle Vladimir Smith - Dermografo (Skin Artist) de Tepic, Mexico In the Realm of Spirits: Traditional Dayak Tattoo in Borneo Borneo's Tattooed Women Warriors - Weavers of the Skrang Iban Women Tattoo Artists of Northern Borneo Return of the Headhunters: The Philippine Tattoo Revival The Oldest Tattoo Shop in Greece The Vanishing Tattoos of China's Li People Loosing Your Head among the Tattooed Headhunters of Taiwan Four Tattoo Artists in Havana, Cuba Kosovo: Tattoo Art Amid the Ruins Sacred Skin - Tattoos of Easter Island Tribal tattoos of Papua New Guinea North America's Tattooed Indian Kings |