Archive Note
Among Brazilian Indigenous peoples, body painting is widespread but true puncture tattooing is rare, and the Kayabi of the Xingu region are the most-cited surviving example, documented by the tattoo researcher Lars Krutak. The practice includes women's facial tattoos and personal name-glyph marks received and applied at adulthood initiation. It stands alongside the Matses of the western Amazon as one of the living Amazonian tattoo traditions, now treated as an active revival.