TATTOOS
SOMETIMES SAY: WHERE YOU FROM, WHAT ITS YOUR CULTURE AND MORE
Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave!.
Tattoos are the mark of the colonized other: the difference between the colonizer and the colonized is in the texture of the skin!.
The art of paint over the body’s came from Egyptians dated to c, 2000 B. C., but one discovered recently show can be dated at around 5.200 years old. The ICEMAN.
The practice was exclusively for females.
There’s some tattoos that can say: What kind of family are you coming from?, or the lineage are your ancestors, how powerful you are, how dangerous you are, there sometimes also say how stupid you are…., and the bad decisions that you took in your life.
There's evidence about of that women had tattoos on their bodies and limbs since c. 4000-3500 B.C. to occasional female figures represented in tomb scenes around c. 1200 B.C. and in figurine form c. 1300 B.C., all with tattoos on their thighs. even an small bronze implements identified as tattooing tools, there for, there are the many mummies with tattoos, from the three women already mentioned and dated to c. 2000 B.C. to a lot of later examples of female mummies showing these forms of permanent marks found in their body's in Greco-Roman burials at Akhmim.
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