Skindigenous - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Philippines
From a remote mountain village in the Northern Philippines, Whang Od Oggay carries on the tattooing tradition of her ancestors, offering those who come to her the sacred markings that were once reserved for the women and warriors of the Kalinga people.
Alberta
Métis artist Amy Malbeuf's insatiable appetite for new creative outlets has led her to work in many artistic fields, including traditional Indigenous tattooing.
Indoneisia
The Mentawai people inhabit a group of islands west of Sumatra, in Indonesia.
British Columbia
Dion Kaszas is an artist and scholar of mixed heritage who feels a strong connection to his Interior Salish roots.
Samoa
Western Samoa is one of the few places on the planet where traditional tattooing continued unimpeded through the colonial era.
Newfoundland
Jordan Bennett is an artist of Mi'kmaq descent whose work blends pop culture and traditional teachings into work that connects the past, the present and the future.
Hawaii
If Keone Nunes had never picked up the tools and answered the call to master of kakau, there would likely be no traditional tattooing in Hawaii today.
Seattle
Seattle-born artist Nahaan sees tattoo, like many other forms of artistic expression, as a political act and a form of resistance.
New Zealand
In the twentieth century, the Maori of New Zealand all but lost their tattooing tradition.
Alaska
Marjorie Tahbone, an Alaskan artist of Inupiaq heritage, was first among the living women of her family to get her traditional chin tattoo.
Prince Rupert
As the only living tattoo artist from the Nisga'a Nation, Nakkita Trimble hopes to revive the traditional process of tattooing known as gihlee'e.
Mexico
The ancient city of Palenque was once a hub of Mayan civilization. For centuries after its decline, it lay hidden under layers of tropical vegetation, until modern archaeologists peeled back the jungle to reveal it to the world in the last century.
Toronto
Jay Soule is a multidisciplinary artist known as "Chippewar" in the Indigenous community. His internationally-recognized work expresses much of the angst of today's Indigenous population in Canada.
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