INDG 1011 Lecture : Reading Response 1
7 May 2021
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If only it makes them pretty : tattooing in prompted inuit drawings by jamie jelinski. This reading opens by telling two slightly different accounts of the story of the raven and the loon tattooing each other. Despite the varying oral accounts, jelinski says the story has the same underlying theme, they converge in their primary declaration: that ravens and loons owe their appearances to tattooing (pg. By introducing this story, jelinski is setting the tone for her paper which outlines the histories and importance of tattooing in inuit heritage and history pre and post-contact with colonials. Jelinski reports that by the mid-twentieth century, inuit women with tattoos significantly decreased (pg. However, inuit peoples adapted and ensured their tattooing knowledge did not completely disappear. Instead, they drew representations for tattoos with a pencil on paper. Jelinski effectively outlines the history of tattooing in inuit culture and in. Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
