### q8 Leviticus forbids tattoos > Inuit tattoos shocked Canadian missionaries, as they did those gawkers at Renaissance fairs. Like drum dancing and throat singing, to the clergy they spelled pagan life ways, backwardness. Scripture was the strongest indictment: “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you” (Leviticus 19:28). Like shamanism, the practice became stigmatized and in most regions of the Arctic disappeared. On Baffin Island in the early 1920s, only a few of the youngest women still boasted facial tattoos - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fmsj9veq290e7n203cgmwnx8) - [[Marks of Belonging by ABOVE&BEYOND#q8 Leviticus forbids tattoos|View in Vault]]