334 | Indigenous Art: Understanding the History and Practice of Tattoos within Indigenous Culture

In this Episode, we sit down with Ana Moyer, an MA student in Art History. Ana is studying the representation of traditional Inuit tattoos within art. For their MA work, they are specifically writing on two contemporary Inuit artists: Ningiukulu Teevee and Sarah Ayaki Whalen-Lunn, the latter also being a trained tattooist in the skin-stitching tradition. From Ana, we learn the different ways tattooing is taken up in Indigenous culture, and how Indigenous tattoos are different from traditional Western tattoos.

To hear more from Ana, you can email them at genderconcerns@sogs.ca or amoyer9@uwo.ca.

Full video on Youtube. 

Recorded on June 14, 2021.

Produced by Hira Nadeem.

Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.