Tribal Tattoo African

Tribal Tattoos African

As with all tattoos, the following African Tattoos, and their meanings have the potential to positively impact our lives if we choose to consistently hold them in our awareness for a length of time so that these attributes of tattooing become part of the thread of our being.

Some tribal cultures traditionally created tattoos by cutting designs into the skin and rubbing the resulting wound with ink, ashes or other agents; some cultures continue this practice, which may be an adjunct to scarification. Some cultures create tattooed marks by hand-tapping the ink into the skin using sharpened sticks or animal bones (made like needles) with clay formed disks or, in modern times, needles. Traditional Japanese tattoos (Horimono) are still "hand-poked," that is, the ink is inserted beneath the skin using non-electrical, hand-made and hand held tools with needles of sharpened bamboo or steel. This method is known as tebori.

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