Tattoo comes from the Tahitian "tatu" which supposedly means the sign. Although the historical evidence of this tattoo is not so much, but the experts to conclude that this tattoo art already existed since 12,000 years BC. Kind of tattoos ancient rituals to ancient tribes like the Maori, Inca, Ainu, Polynesians, etc.. Historically, the Egyptians who had become the mother of the development of tattoos in the world. The Egyptians are known as the nation's well-known strong, so therefore their expansion towards other nations, art tattoo bandwagon is also widespread, as to the Greek, Persian, and Arabic.
What is the reason for the ancient tribes of the world get a tattoo? Ancient Greeks wore tattoos as identification of members of their intelligence, aka spies of war at the time. Here tattoo showing the rank of the spy. different from the Romans, they used tattoos as a sign that someone is coming from the class of slaves, and Tattoos also dirajahi to every body of the prisoner. Maori tribes in New Zealand makes Tattoo shaped spiral carvings on the face and buttocks. According to them, this is a good sign for the descendants. In Solomon Islands, Tattoos etched on her face as a ritual to mark a new stage in their lives. Almost the same as above, the Nuer tribe in the Sudan wear tattoos to mark rites of initiation in boys. The Indians paint and sculpt the body to add to the beauty of their skin or showing certain social status.
Aka Wen Shen tattoo or Rajah began come to China around 2000 BC years. Wen Shen said to mean "body acupuncture". please note, just like the Romans, the ancient Chinese people wear tattoos to signify that someone had been imprisoned. While in China alone, there are tattoo culture in some ethnic minority, which has been inherited by their ancestors, such as ethnic Drung, Dai, and Li, but only the women who come from ethnic Li and Drung, who has obtained the habit of tattooing the face. Historical customs Drung ethnic Tattoo appear around the end of the dynastic emperor Ming (about 350 years ago), when they were attacked by a group of other ethnic groups and at the time they arrested some women from ethnic Drung to serve as slaves. In order to avoid the occurrence of rape, the women are then tattooed their faces to make them look less attractive in the eyes of the kidnapper. Although it is now the women of the Drung ethnic minorities is no longer in a state threatened by attacks from other ethnic minorities, yet they still continue to maintain these customs as a symbol of the strength of maturity. The girls from ethnic minorities Drung tattooed face as they aged between 12 and 13 years as a symbol of self maturation. There are several different explanations, why the women are tattooed face. Some people say, that people assume Drung ethnic tattooed women look more beautiful and the Drung ethnic Adam will not marry a woman who does not have a tattoo on his face. People in Indonesia Mentawai Mentawai islands, Dayak tribes of Borneo, and Sumba in NTB tribe, already familiar with tattoos since ancient times. Even for the Dayak tribe, someone who managed to "decapitate" the enemy, he got a tattoo on his hand. Likewise with the Mentawai tribe, his tattoo is made carelessly. Before making a tattoo done, there Enegaf Harvest alias initiation ceremony conducted in Puturkaf Uma (traditional house gallery Mentawai tribe). The ceremony was led by Sikerei (shaman). After the ceremony is completed, then the process was implemented Tattoos.
FIRST, materials to make the tattoo comes from coconut shell charcoal mixed with sugarcane juice. The tools used are still very traditional. Like the wooden handle, a needle and bat from the trunk. Rural people are still using manual techniques and of traditional materials. Eskimos, for example, using needles made from animal bones. In the Shaolin temples using a heated copper barrel to print images tubih dragon tattoo on the skin. Shaolin disciples who were deemed eligible to get a symbol that, by placing their arms in a kind of mold the image of the dragon on both sides of the barrel-shaped copper heat it. Much different from now. Nowadays, especially among the urban community, making tattoos done with an electric engine. This machine was found in 1891 in England. Then color substance use synthetic ink.
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