#kakiniit

Inuk woman in her dresswear and kakiniit and tunniit facial tattoos.

I finally finished Sedna's character sheet this took me way longer than I original anticipated and a good 90% of that was spent doing research because I was under the Dunning Kruger effect HEAVY.

In any case she's been done and to a degree I'm really happy with the addition of color really gives her alot more life and the new hair style leaves her feeling... cuter? I dunno I just love my spirit eating thicc gorl.

Kakiniit | Traditional tattoos of the Inuit of the North American Arctic

Making tattoos from scratch was more difficult than I thought it would be (especially when there’s so many small and straight lines!) But I tried my best to make kakiniit + tunniit for TS4. I myself am not Inuit, but having seen so much custom content made for other cultures, I wanted to make these too. There was a random set of facial tattoos I have in game that had a swatch where it was a singular line down the chin, and I remembered it being similar to some native tattooing I’d seen before. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole reading about these in particular. In researching this tradition, I saw how many Inuit women are actively reviving it after years (like well over a century) of missionaries trying to entirely wipe out the practice. It is really cool to learn about the history and meanings behind them, and I hope this can allow someone to have something in their game they may have felt was missing- or someone can learn something new entirely!

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Teen - Elder

Categorized as lower back tattoo

6 swatches; each adding to previous swatches

Please enjoy this piece from a Florist!/TattooArtist! Zutara AU from this year’s @zkbigbang !