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GadoGado
18th September 2010, 06:24 PM
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For many men in West Africa, scarring is a form of tribal initiation and a sign of bravery. Done with razor blades, the painful process starts at puberty and continues into adulthood. Each tribe has distinctive tattoo designs; this man�s markings indicate his village and his clan and include black magic symbols to keep away evil spirits.

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Elaborate religious tattoos adorn a man at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. He is a follower of the Modern Primitivism movement, part of a subculture that includes extensive tattooing and piercing. Modern Primitivists believe body markings and other tribal traditions help reconnect them to the world and emphasize their own identity.

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The Maori culture has a long tradition of tattooing, which dated back centuries until the Europeans outlawed it in the 1800s. These Auckland men belong to the anti-European Black Power Group. Their tattoos are a combination of traditional Maori tattoo art, called moko, and symbols picked up from the U.S. Black Power movement of the 1960s.

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Within Japanese culture mafiosi are known for their intricate full-body tattoos of mythological characters. Tattoos are also considered a sign of initiation into the mafia. The process (now done with modern tattoo guns) can take up to two years to complete. Tattoos are admired for their color and patterns.

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Called the Tribe, these men (gathered under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) are leaders of the local Modern Primitivism movement. The Tribe has a tattoo parlor that does only tribal marking. Several of the tattoo artists have traveled to Borneo and learned the craft from tribal masters.

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Cuna Indians live in isolation on the San Blas Islands off the Panama coast. Cuna women, like these albino twin sisters, are known for their body markings and nose rings. They are wearing traditional molas, layered cloth panels known around the world for their beautiful patterns. Within the Cuna culture albinos�called �Children of the Moon��are sacred.

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Although tattoos are considered primitive by most Ethiopians, many Coptic Christians, like this woman in Lalibela, are marked with crosses to show their strong faith. Applied with needles, the marks can extend around the neck and down the chest.

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Once outlawed, the tradition of tribal tattooing has undergone a recent renewal among the Maori people of New Zealand and other Polynesian cultures. Full facial markings, or moko, such as this Maori chief has, are the most common in New Zealand.

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A Mursi woman from the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia is adorned with face markings and a lip plate, considered signs of beauty among the Mursi.

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Ink from a tree in the Amazon Basin created the elaborate tattoos on these women in Xingu National Park. Applied with a small stick, the markings are done in a linear design, with each line depicting status and eligibility for marriage. The tattoos will last about six months.

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Samoa is considered the epicenter of tribal tattooing in the South Pacific. Unlike the rest of Polynesia, traditional tattooing never died here. Considered an integral part of initiation into Samoan culture mainly for men, but also for women, the markings are made at puberty. The men�s tattoos often depict the traditional Samoan canoe.

mungkin ada beberapa gambar yang tak berbusana....
moga2 aj g ada yang nganggap ini Pornografi....
soalnya ini cman edukasi...../sry /sry

savorez
4th October 2010, 11:38 PM
bagus2 sih ndan, cuma kyknya kebudayaannya belom ngepas sama budaya sini. tapi so far ok lah :2good: