Central Arkansas is home to a vibrant tattoo community and some of the best artists in the state, with dozens of shops in the ...

An 800-year-old mummy displays unique facial tattoos with rare mineral ink, offering new insights into ancient South American tattoo practices and cultural identity.

From warrior shawls to wild silks and sacred paintings, the tribal crafts of Northeast India are a vibrant expression of history, identity, and everyday life.

An international team of anthropologists, cultural heritage specialists and lab analysts has found tattoos of a type never seen before on the face and arm of an 800-year-old Andean mummy. Their paper ...

Moranngam Khaling’s four-acre plot features plants whose leaves are used to make the ink, and whose twigs help tap patterns ...

Japanese Tattoos: History, Culture, Design by Brian Ashcraft and Hori Benny Tuttle Publishing 2016, 160 pages, 7.5 x 10 x 0.7 ...

It serves social, political and religious purposes. A body adorned with jewelries/ornaments, paintings, tattoos, tribal traditional identification marks, decorative cuts, hairstyles body designs ...

Toetu‘u, who apprenticed under Su‘a’s father Su‘a Alaiva‘a, points out that “Maui bears ‘Neo-Polynesian Tribal’ tattoos, which is a contemporary style that began in the late 1990s ...

Mr Laing, who has prominent tribal tattoos on his upper body and neck, had set out to try and dodge the rule by purchasing a black turtleneck to cover his ink so he could spend time with friends.

Forget tribal tattoos — Gen Z is ushering in a futuristic, new favorite in body art. The generation’s ink of choice is cybersigilism, a type of sharp, spiky line work that looks both gothic ...