Old facial moko tattoo
Many people don't blink when you tell them what they're wearing. tattoo inks; as well as when you tell them that some Zones they make you cry in pain. And it is that the tattoo has always fascinated us, so its disadvantages they don't intimidate us like they didn't in ancient times; and they had plenty of reasons for it.
Dyes and tools used in the past
Many have been Utensils that have been used to pierce the skin and mark it with a tattoo: bird bones, fish bones, saw-sharpened turtle shells, shark teeth, bamboo canes, cactus needles ... with the advance of civilization a little, but not much, since they used pins, razor blades or pieces of glass.
Utensils to make a tebori
Herman Melville had the dubious privilege of living with cannibals for years. He recounted his experience in Taipei, Eden Cannibal, book in which he describes the Moko: a short, thin stick with a shark's tooth at the end was used. The tattoo artist rhythmically struck the end with a wooden mallet and the tooth sank into the skin. There is nothing.
Some claim that this is the hardest method to get tattooed along with the fearsome tebori, But the Pirates they covered the outline of the drawing with gunpowder that they ignited with a flame. The expanding slingshot fixed the particles on the skin. Then they say about branding ...
The pirates: with a pair
They have also been used dyes of all kinds: raw lizards, antimony mixed with melon and barley juice, animal fat with vegetable pigments, armor ashes with candle nuts and vegetable juice.
The black color was achieved by smoking the bottom of a container and the ink was mixed with berry juice and even ocher earth. Y Celts they used pigments so foul smelling that tattooists were forced to live far from the village.
Great sacrifices to honor a millennial art.
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