The History of Tattooing
Asia
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A village in Mentawai, Indonesia, where practically everybody are tattooed.


And here a tattoo is done. The technique is pretty much the same as in Polynesia, but the needles has been attached to something that looks like part of a cow's horn. An of course the designs are different.

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