About Art Tattoo

Dutu, tattoos became a ritual for ancient tribes like the Maori, Inca, Ainu, Polynesians, and others. If you walk into Egypt, try playing the pyramids, maybe you can find the oldest tattoo there. Because according to history, the Egyptians who had a prickly growing proliferation of tattoos in the world. The Egyptian's known as a strong nation famous, they are expanding into other countries, so that the art of tattoo bandwagon too widespread, as to the Greek, Persian, and Arabic.

What is the reason for the ancient tribes in the world to make a tattoo? Ancient Greeks used tattoos as badges of their limbs aka intetijen spy war at that time. Tattoo here shows the ranks of those spies. In contrast to the Romans, they used tattoos as a sign that someone is coming from a slave class, and tattoos are also dirajahi to each body of the prisoner. Maori tribe in New Zealand to make a tattoo shaped spiral carvings on the face and buttocks.

According to them, this is a sign of a good offspring. In the Solomon Islands, tattoo etched on her face as a ritual to mark a new stage in their lives. Almost the same as in the base, the people in Sudan's Nuer tribe wore tattoos to mark rites of initiation in children taki-taki. The Indians paint and sculpt the body they kutit to add beauty or show a certain social status.

Aka tattoo or tattoo wen shen merambahi China began around 2000 BC. Wen shen supposedly means "acupuncture body". Engagement is known, just like the Romans, the ancient China used tattoos to indicate that someone was in jail. While in China itself, there is a tattoo culture in some ethnic minority, which oteh inherited tetah their ancestors, such as ethnic Drung, Dai, and Li, but only the women who come from ethnic Li and Drung who have a habit of tattooing his face. History customary Drung ethnic tattoos appear around the end of the Ming dynasty (around 350 years Talu), when they were attacked by a group of other ethnic groups and at the time they rounded up some Drung ethnic women to serve as slaves. By avoiding the occurrence of rape, the women are then tattooing their faces to make them look less attractive in the eyes of the kidnapper.

Although now the women of the Drung ethnic minorities is no longer in danger of attack from oteh other ethnic minorities, but they still continue to maintain these customs as a symbol of the power of maturity. The girls from tattooing Drung ethnic minorities face when they were aged between 12 and 13 years as a symbol of growing up themselves. There are several different explanations why these women tattooing his face. Some people say, that the Drung ethnic women who tattooed think looks more beautiful and the Drung ethnic Adam would not marry a woman who does not have a tattoo on his face.

In Indonesia, the Mentawai people of the Mentawai islands, Dayak tribe in Kalimantan, and Sumba in NTB tribe, have known since the days of old-fashioned tattoo. Even for the Dayak tribe, someone who managed to "decapitate" the enemy, he's got a tattoo on his hand. Likewise with the Mentawai tribe, the tattoo was not made lightly. Before making a tattoo done, there enegaf aka harvest initiation ceremony conducted in puturkaf uma (traditional home gallery Mentawai tribe). The ceremony was presided over by sikerei (shaman). After the ceremony is finished, the tattoo process barutah implemented.