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A black-and-white photograph of five Inuit women with facial tattoos standing in front of a white cloth backdrop

Aivilliq Women, 1903–1904. Credit: Albert Peter Low (a038271). Nivisanaaq (nicknamed “Shoofly) at centre in a beaded atigii with painted tattoos. Note the woman to her right, whom we also see in the image below.

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