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Welcome to our resources and articles section. We cover everything from [[Tattoo History]] through [[Tribal Tattoos]] to [[Tattoo Care]] and [[Piercings]] You can find information on [[tattoo designs|designs]], [[Tattoo Equipment|equipment]], [[Tattoo Studios|tattoo studios]] and much more.. Also, if...
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Anonymous
1 yr 219 days ago
 Aftercare, Equipment, Piercing, Piercings, Studios, Tattoo Designs, Tattoo History, Tattoos, Tribal
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Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since Neolithic times. [[Ötzi the Iceman]], dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BCE, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and...
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Tom
1 yr 237 days ago
Africs, Borneo, Countries, Europe, Japan, Mentawi Islands, Mesoamerica, Otzi The Iceman, Pazyrk, Philippines, Polynesia, South America, Tattoo History, Tattooed Mummies, U.S.A
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The history of tattooing in Africa dates back thousands of years. Until the recent discovery of [[Ötzi the Iceman]], the oldest known tattoos belonged to the mummy of Amunet, a priestess of the goddess Hathor somewhere between 2160 BC -1994 BC. With her simple parallel lines on her arms, legs, and an...
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When the Samoan Islands were first seen by Europeans in 1722 three Dutch ships commanded by Jacob Roggewein visited the eastern island known as Manua. A crew member of one of the ships described the natives in these words, “They are friendly in their speech and courteous in their behavior, with no apparent...
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Sak yant, (also called yantra tattooing), is a form of sacred tattooing practiced in Southeast Asian countries including Cambodia and Thailand. Sak yant are normally tattooed by Buddhist monks or Brahmin priests. The most famous temple in the present day for Yant tattooing is Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon...
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Know as the "Dayak", meaning "interior" or "inland" person, the variety of indigenous native tribes of Borneo have a tradition of tattooing that describes their fundamental identity as tribespeople, headhunters, warriors, and community members. Both the men and the women...
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Philippino Tribal Tattoos In traditional terms, the Philippines consist of three main island groups - Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao are steeped in tattooing traditions, many of which have been supressed throughout the past by invading countries and empires. The men of Visayas wore such intricate and extensive...
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Tom
2 yr 96 days ago
Countries, Designs, Hand Tapping, Philippines, Tattoo History, Traditional Methods, Tribal
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Mentawai tattoo Mythology The Mentawai people are the indiginous inhabitants of the Mentawai Islands - a chain of about seventy islands and islets off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia . In Mentawai mythology, a young boy transformed himself into the first Sago tree so that his people would never...
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Tom
2 yr 116 days ago
Countries, Designs, Hand Tapping, Mentawai Islands, Shaman, Tattoo Culture, Tattoo History, Traditional Methods, Trees, Tribal
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Ötzi the Iceman ( pronounced ˈœtsi ' ), Frozen Fritz , and Similaun Man are modern nicknames of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC (53 centuries ago), found in 1991 in the Schnalstal glacier in the Ötztal Alps , near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy . The...
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