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Year: 2022

November 13, 2022December 2, 2022

“AGE APPROPRIATE” TATTOOS – LARS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Tattoo News
October 30, 2022December 2, 2022

NATIVE AMERICANS REVITALIZE ANCIENT TATTOO TRADITIONS

Tattoo News
October 12, 2022December 2, 2022

TATTOO THERAPEUTICS DELIVER MEDICINE MORE THAN SKIN DEEP

Tattoo News
September 10, 2022December 2, 2022

LARS KRUTAK: UNVEILING THE ROOTS OF TATTOOING

Tattoo News
May 17, 2022May 19, 2022

TATTOOS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

article, magical tattooing, medicinal tattooing, tattooing women, traditional techniques
The sun is an important tattoo motif for the Baigas of Madhya Pradesh because it depicts the source of life. This patterns finds a strategic placement on the knees and sometime the chest due to the contours of the body. Photograph © Shatabdi Chakrabarti.
May 10, 2022May 12, 2022

INDIA: LAND OF ETERNAL INK

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Tattoo Anthropologist / Author / Curator

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Poi Mirang Pai, a Kenyah aristocrat and perhaps th Poi Mirang Pai, a Kenyah aristocrat and perhaps the last fully tattooed member of the royal family of the Uma Bakah clans, Sarawak. She bears various tattooing motifs reserved for her lofty social status including the face of Bungan Malan, the Goddess of Creation. 2011. © Lars Krutak. **More info on Kenyah tattooing coming later this year in my new book on Indigenous tattoos of Asia by the University of Hawai'i Press - mahalo! 
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Tattooed Yonkon Naga women, Sagaing Region, northw Tattooed Yonkon Naga women, Sagaing Region, northwest Myanmar. 2014. © Lars Krutak. #tattoo #tattoos #yonkon #myanmar #sagaing #facialtattoo #inked #indigenous #heritage #culture #bodyart #visualart #tattoohistory #asia #anthropology #tattooed #tatouage #tatuagem #tatuajes #tätowierung #tatovering #handtappedtattoo #ontheroad #lars #larsontheroad #tattooroadtrip
The Deq tattooist, Fatê Temel. Also featured is @ The Deq tattooist, Fatê Temel. Also featured is @yavukluahmet_ whose exquisite book is filled with important information.

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