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Maya Sialuk Jacobsen

Maya Sialuk Jacobsen is Greenlandic Inuk from Qeqertarsuaq and now lives in Svendborg, Denmark. She is a culture bearer, researcher and educator with 17 years of tattoo experience, solely committed to Inuit tattoo traditions. She writes and speaks publicly on tattooing, and is in dialogues regarding legislation on facial tattooing in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, where the practice remains illegal.
Ancestral Threads

Ancestral Threads

Through research I find clues to our centuries-old traditions, connecting stories to markings and pulling the past into the present