Tattooing

Tattooing is an art that has always been under construction. Although it been a contributing part of counterculture, tattooing has also contributed to art history in more ways than one. Once seen as a permanent marking for bikers, criminals, and rejected groups of society has now become a form of expression for everyone ages 18 and above. In America, native american tribes used it as a representation of their cultures and later on sailors and soldiers used tattoos to show where they had been and…

Tattooing, not a new trend or fad, but a continued tradition. Tattooing started around since the Tahitian “tatu” which means “to mark something”. The Tahitian, who are an indigenous people who live in Tahiti, used sticks with sharp bone dipped in natural made inks from berries. The stick poked in and out of the skin for hours, and the tattoos were used as representation of the person's family story. As time passed the vessel used to deliver the tattoos changed as well as the trends and meanings.…

Before the 1800s, Tahitian tattoos were involved in social action, clarifying kinship, sacredness, and identity (Borofsky 1989:230). Today, Tahitian tattoo artists are seen in the global tattooing network, teaching at European and American tattooists’ salons (Thomas et al. 2005:171). They practice not only Tahitian tattoo styles, but also Euro-American, Japanese, Celtic, and other Polynesian techniques as well (Thomas et al. 2005:171). This transmission and globalization of Tahitian tattoos can…

actually forgotten the meaning behind the tattoos tribes and communities used to wear. Because of this loss in knowledge and the adversity tattooing has gone through throughout the last century, we have come to see and decline of traditional culture based tattooing. There is no real definition for traditional tattooing. However, an example of traditional tattooing would be how tribesmen would tattoo themselves…

Intro Recently there have been very many problems concerning animal cruelty, people have started tattooing and painting fish. People have been Tattooing/Painting fish since the 1980’s. As a quote from practicalfishkeeping’s interview on Alen Lee “sold about 20 of them in just a week.” This shows that the product is selling very well and the chances of being stopped are getting smaller with every fish sold. This practice isn’t just painful it can cause health risks and is practiced in different…

The three different cultures being talked about are the, Tikopia, Marquesas, and Tsonga. All three cultures use body art through the process of tattooing. These different cultures do not do this art for the same reasoning which is one way to distinguish the different cultures. Cultural…

People who had tattoos were either criminals, in the circus or served the military. People who had tattoos were labeled as freaks and savage-like. The Ringling Brothers circus enchanted sponsors with Miss Betty Broadbent’s body art at a time where tattooing was forced underground. Soldiers regularly visited New York’s Chatham Square and bought tattoos of military imagery. Towns with military bases often had tattoo parlors in the early 1900’s. When World War II came, tattoos were seen as the sign…

Tattooing has existed for thousands of years in places such as Irezumi in Japan, Ta Moko in New Zealand and the Pe'a and Malu in Samoa. The word tattoo originates from the Polynesian word “ta” which means striking something, as well as the Tahitian word “tatau” which means “to mark something”. Contemporary tattooing has evolved from a practice that was initially imported from the islands of Polynesia and later transformed into a form of working-class folk art. Tattooing is a centuries old art…

and more Hollywood celebrities flaunt their tattoos, it has become an international fashion icon. If you are interested in inking yourself or learn the art of tattooing, you should first learn about the basics of tattoo before venturing further. Machines Are Important Tribal people are simply satisfied with their hands and needles for tattooing, but modern day…

on a person’s body. The tattooing industry as a whole is minimally regulated and not a lot of negative tattooing incidents are reported. The industry has yet to create any standards for ink ingredients so you never really are sure of what exactly the ink is consisted of. There has been cases where lead and nickel have been found in the ink and caused allergic reactions to people’s skin. These types of incidents only usually occur when people don't go to reliable tattooing parlors, or attend…