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Notes and further reading

Sources

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2. Godna: Tattoo Art by Women of the Baiga Tribe · INTACH Intangible Cultural Heritage
3. Shanti Bai · Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
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5. Godna and the Gonds: From Tradition to Innovation · Economic and Political Weekly Engage
6. Meet Women Giving Fading Traditional Tattoo Art a Bold Makeover · The Indian Express
7. Godna Craft · Surguja District Administration
8. The Ramnamis of Chhattisgarh: Wearing Ram in Defiance of Casteism · Sahapedia
9. Decade-old Tattoos Tell of Devotion, Caste and Defiance in India · Reuters
10. Body Is a Temple: Tattooed Indians Show Hindu Devotion · The Straits Times / AFP
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12. From Marks of Status to a Kind of Jewellery · Scroll.in
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16. Adivasi Women Are Reclaiming Centuries-Old Warli Art · The Better India
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18. How Dalit Women Have Used Art to Reclaim Their Identity · DailyO
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20. Once a Painful Form of Self-Protection, Tattooed Faces Are Now Rare Among Women in Kandhamal · The Hindu
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22. The Tattooed Tiger Men of India · Lars Krutak
23. The Dying Art of Naga Headhunting Tattoos · Lars Krutak
24. Photos: The Vanishing Body Art of a Tribe of Onetime Headhunters · NPR
25. The Konyaks: Last of the Tattooed Headhunters · Phejin Konyak and Peter Bos, Roli Books
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31. The Toda Tribe of the Nilgiris: A Tradition of Tattoos to Embroidery · NewsGram
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35. Godna: Inscribing Indian Convicts in the Nineteenth Century · University of Birmingham