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In
recent years Tribal Tattoos have enjoyed
a revival.We specialize in Historical
and modern Tribal Tattoos of all styles.
Since
the dawn of humanity , Tattoos have
been made onto both sexes to decorate,
enhance, and modify the skin we inherit
at birth. Some (Tattoo
art mage
Galleries) Tattoos are self-motivated
expressions of personal freedom and
uniqueness. Most, however, have to
do with traditions that mark a person
as a member or nonmember of the local
group, or express religious, magical,
or spiritual beliefs and personal convictions.
We all have a undeniable need to belong,
this is the most basic Tribal need,
and the reason for the Tribal Tattoos
renewed power. Tribal Tattoos have
a simple appeal : we like the way they
look on us, It reinforces a positive
feeling about ourselves and connects
us some how to an element of mystery
and ancient activity. (Articles)
The
practice of skin ornamentation is certainly
as widespread and as ancient as Man
himself. It may well have been one
of his first conscious acts involving
tools which separated him from the
rest of the animal kingdom. (Tattoo
Chats, Forums and Body Art Discussions )
It is thought by some that ancient
mans first primordial feeling when
he found himself without great amounts
of body hair was to take a blackened
sharp stick from the fire and decorate
( Tattoo ) his body, in this way he
became camouflaged or protected as
the animals were.
As
the origins of art are rooted in early
cave paintings, so positive proof of
Tattooing is obtained from recent discoveries
of ancient frozen mummified remains
of early man that are covered in Tattoos.
Oldest Tattooed body known to date
is that of a Bronze Age man who died
over 5000 years ago. He was found frozen
intact in an Italian glazier. (Tattoo
o rganizations)Researchers
where startled at close examination
he was found to have both arms, legs
and torso covered with elaborate Tattoos
representing mythical creatures.
(Tattoo directories) 15000
BC ice age rock carvings show Tattooed
figures, 4200 BC Egyptian mummies wear Tattoos. Archeologically
validated works of art showing Tattoos
started to appear about 30000 years
ago. One must not forget that, with
the exemption of mummies, all art on
the Human body disappears into the
fire or ashes along with its bearer.
(Tattoo and body art directories)
Western
culture now has a widespread resurgence
and acceptance of the Tribal practice
of Tattooing. More and more research
on Tribal people, their arts, Tattoos,
and lifestyles, and more and more available
images of Tattooed people have led
to western peoples interest in Tribal
Tattoos. Pretechnological designs (i.e.,Black
Tribal) give the wearer a link to the
origins of all present human society,
a past Tribal culture wherein the Tattoo
had an inner meaning to the wearer
, not just a modern symbol of our present
culture such as a Mickey Mouse Tattoo.
Ask
any tattooer and they will tell you
that photos of tattoos are a nightmare.
Not so much because its hard to do,
but because of the shock when you see
them. You see we get all excited when
we finish a new tattoo, were psyched,
its the best tattoo ever!!!! So you
take pictures of it, wrap em up and
out they go.(Tattoo Flash)
Tattoo and Body Art Links
Articles
on tattooing, from Tattoos.com.
Body painting
websites, a directory from Google.
Celttic Tattoo Art, a site by Pat Fish.
Dragon Tattoos, UK.
Cheery Creek Flash Tattoos
Tattoing and Body
Art
Most native
peoples of the Americas practiced tattooing
to some extent. It served a variety
of purposes depending on location,
gender, and the state of intertribal
relations. (Tattoo Personal Pages)
A variety of methods were used to create tattoos. Among the Sioux, for example,
women would draw a circle or line on a person's skin with clay, punch the design
with an awl, and then rub blue clay over it. By the time the clay was dry it
had penetrated beneath the awl holes. Among California natives an older woman
would scratch the skin of a subject and rub charcoal dust or plant juice into
the scratches for color. Following contact with Europeans, the Ojibwas drew
on the skin with a stick dipped in gunpowder dissolved in water. The figure
was then pricked with needles dipped in vermillion and the skin was seared
with punkwood to prevent festering. The area would then be treated with an
antiseptic herbal wash. These processes often took a number of days. (Tattoo Removal)
Tattoos held different meanings for different tribes. In the Northwest, from
California to Washington, tattoos identified a woman's village. In Alaska certain
tattoos indicated that a man had killed an enemy in battle, and among the Yokuts
of California tattoos marked the location of a person's supernatural power.
As is the case in other parts of the world, Native American tattooing reflected
(and reflects) a variety of concerns and attitudes related to the human body.
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