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New Guinea is the world’s second-largest island, and though its landmass nearly equals that of California, it remains one of the least urbanized nations globally, with only 18% of its roughly 6 million inhabitants residing in cities. Remarkably, Papua New Guinea boasts an astonishing linguistic diversity, home to over 800 indigenous languages—about five percent of […]

Among the Bantu and Makonde-speaking tribes, tattoos have always been more complex compared to the tattoos of other indigenous Mozambican tribes, and this remains true today. The resonance of the tattooing tradition is due, to some extent, to the area occupied by the Makonde tribe, a place characterized by high plateaus that prevented European contact,

The word “tattoo” originates from the Tahitian word “tatau”. Captain James Cook used the word “tattow” when he witnessed a tattooing for the first time in his life in Tahiti in 1796. According to Māori mythology, tattooing began thanks to a love story. The story is about the love between a young man named Mataora

Kayan, Sihan, and Lahanan: Three Tribes from North Sarawak, Malaysia, Borneo The three tribes are collectively known as Orang Ulu (People of the Interior), and most of their members are heavily tattooed. Unlike the Iban people, the Orang Ulu tattooists were exclusively women. The Orang Ulu did not use specific models for long, but the