### q1 skin sewing is an traditional Arctic tattoo method > The human face is a marker of individuality. It holds clues about a person’s gender, age, mood, and ethnicity. Since time immemorial, people employed this charged surface to announce their belonging to kin groups and a place through countless modifications. In Canada’s Arctic, a preferred method for such expressions of cultural identity has been “skin sewing,” the traditional form of tattooing. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fmsj47hh4c06bgkzmeeeg7wa) - [[Marks of Belonging by ABOVE&BEYOND#q1 skin sewing is an traditional Arctic tattoo method|View in Vault]]