dermal piercing

– Amy Malbeuf
– artist
– cultural tattoo practitioner
– skin stitch
– running thread
– sewing
– personal meaning
– powerful tattoos
– reclaim Indigenous traditions
– stolen traditions
– re-found traditions
– bonds between women
– historical process of tattooing
– Thunderbird tattoo
– Indigenous tattoo revival
– traditional method
– Alaska Native women
– pigment
– soot of seal oil lamps
– urine
– old woman
– steel needles
– liquid pigment
– traditional chin tattoos
– reviving the tradition
– cultural ceremonies
– celebrations
– taken away traditions
– healthy revival
– strong revival