The needle is steel, not a sliver of bone. The thread is cotton, not reindeer or whale sinew. And rather than soot, lampblack, or gunpowder, the pigment is black ink. But though her materials are modern and sterilized, when Greenlandic tattoo artist Maya Sialuk Jacobsen hand sews a traditional design on the face of fellow Inuit women, she is helping them reclaim a vital part of their cultural history that dates back at least 5,000 years.
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