18 November 2010

Tlingit woman

"Tlingit woman named Kaw-Claa wearing her potlatch dancing costume, Alaska, 1906"

From the Flickr photostream of the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.

1 comment:

  1. I love pictures like this- how varied are our ideas of beauty. In viewing this, I think about people today who will comment on a woman's makeup ("that eyeshadow is too dark on her!") and wonder if others had societal standards for tattoos and adornment( imagining whispers of "she'd just look a little more polished if she would add to the tattoo on her chin").

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