Ornamental compositions of tattoos among the peoples of Northern Pacifica (classification principles)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tattoos are a vivid artistic form and expressive means of cultural, social and possibly ethnic identity of the peoples of the North. The classification of tattoos of the aboriginal peoples of the North Pacific, as well as the systematization of ornamental compositions and elements, have not yet been developed, which determines the novelty of this publication. The relevance of the study is in developing a research methodology for tattoo ornament, as a special type of artistic creativity of the peoples of the North. In the study we analyze the data on main ornamental motives and compositions of tattoos of the Chukchi, Eskimos, Evens, Itelmens, and other peoples of the northeastern regions of Eurasia basing of ethnographic observations obtained by a number of researchers in the 17th-19th and early 20th centuries. It has been revealed that while the main type of ornament of the peoples of the North is represented by simple geometric figures (lines, dotted lines, geometric shapes, grids, etc.), the unique stylized anthropomorphic and zoomorphic elements preserved as well. Analysis of ideas about northern ornamental art is an urgent task, since it plays an important role in the formation of personal, cultural, ethnic and social identity of the peoples, which determines the future prospects for cross-cultural research. Additionally to the tattoo motives ornamentation techniques, tools, composition of elements and features of motifs and compositions on household items, clothes, etc. can be identified as features of ornamental art. The authors see further research prospects in verification of the techniques of ornamentation characteristics, the semantic analysis of the ornamental field as a whole.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".