The women and men of the Maori people use the facial tattoo, in bold striking tribal designs called Ta Moko. Facial tattooing is still a part of life for many people, of their human experience.

Centuries before rockstars and celebrities, tattoos were used by tribal men and women across the world, whether it was the Maoris of New Zealand or the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh, to mark out ...

The distinctive tribal tattoos that indigenous Amazigh women acquired in a coming of age ritual are slowly disappearing as their bearers age and die. Strictly observant Muslims and women who want ...

A recently published third edition of a book about body art, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and the ... who gave her a chin tattoo as a mark of tribal acceptance.

For many of the women Potts-Joseph tattoos, the experience of getting the Yidįįłtoo is just as meaningful as the end result. Lonnie Buresch, who is Denyeet Hutaana and Hän Gwich’in and based ...