In my dialect of Inuktitut:
"kakiniit" means "tattoos"
"tunniit" means "face tattoos"
This coming August, I will be getting tunniit. I've been trying to research Inuit tattooing for years now, but there is very very little existing research about this topic, so it can be quite frustrating. I've done a few elder interviews over the last couple of years, but I'm about to travel all over Nunavut in the next month and a half to interview as many elders as I can about traditional tattoos. It's taken almost 4 years to get the funding together to go on this trip, and now I'm FINALLY ready to start traveling! I leave this week.
First stop: IGLOOLIK!!!
