Template:Did you know nominations/Veiqia

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:04, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Nundua, seated, veiqia tattoos visible at her hips

• ... that when young Fijian women reached puberty, their hips were tattooed with veiqia (pictured)? Source: "In nineteenth-century Fiji, when a girl reached puberty, she was tattooed in a secluded enclosure by a daubati (female specialist)." https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18kc0px.19 & for hips, see " following account of tatuing (veinggia) is brief and incomplete partly because it is a custom restricted to the female sex and then confined to that portion of the body surrounding the pudendurn muliebre and adjacent areas which are covered by the short fringe skirt (liku)" https://www.jstor.org/stable/2790097
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Baguia Fort
  • Comment: QPQ is forthcoming, but didn't want to forget to nominate this article QPQ done

Lajmmoore (talk) 20:55, 13 October 2024 (UTC).

• Recent GA. Article is well-referenced throughout with no copyvio detected. Hook is interesting and referenced. Image confirmed to be PD. Good to go with the QPQ done. Juxlos (talk) 06:54, 16 October 2024 (UTC)