Skin marking

[Tom]

Well ofcourse I mean tattooing, but see the link. I'd like to open the topic of tattooing by asking the Yesah words for this practise, anyone know the terms.
Also I'd like to ask that re. the arrow pattern that we agree on a configuration of arrows and leave the background to the artist bend of each one of us, that way we can express ourselves and still have a general consensus among us.
Please see the following site and you'll get my drift.
A Moko is a Moko is a Moko!
www.tamoko.org.nz/

[techteach]

I went to the native American art exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute yesterday. It included copies of those early European pictures of Indians who were tatooed that we discussed earlier. There were also a series of pots in the shape of heads that were also tatooed. Wonderful work! There were displays of Hopewell pipes there too. Amazing to look at. One was a beaver with pearl inlaid eyes and front teeth done with shell. Amazing detail considering that they had no metal for worling the stone. My Hopewell racoon is more detailed than some that were displayed. I bought a book on the exhibit.
Speck's papers seem to state that the Hopewell were the ancestors of the Tutelo.

Techteach

[lynellarainhawk]

Tom,

I don't know the Yesah wording for Tattoos, but now that you've intrigued me I'll have to look that up too!;) A very interesting subject. And I really like your idea with "The Arrows" I could agree to that, no problem.:) Where do you come up with all these interesting topics?;)

Techteach,

I didn't know the Hopewell/Tutelo connection. That's pretty interesting too. I wish I could have gone with you. It would have been fun. I would have been "Ooh, Ahh-ing" everything!:) Thank you both. Lovin' Ya', Lynella.

[Linda]

Ya' know, maybe we should just drop this talk about pins and beadwork and all that and just do it the way it was done, get some arrows tattoed on our left shoulders. Or, for the feint of heart, get some temporary tattoos made up. I feel like, if you're going to do something authentic and traditional, go all the way, or it's really nothing more than an oxymoron.

You made me homesick, Techteach, talking about the Chicago Art Institute. I loved going there. Miss those big lions out front.