For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos.
The resulting symbols and imagery inscribed on the body held important social, civ.
The act of tattooing served as a rite of passage and supplication, while the composition and use of ancestral Tattoo bundles was intimately related to group identity.
For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos