Indonesia-Best-Travel, Before sipatiti started making a tattoo, there is a ritual ceremony led by sikerei (traditional Mentawai culture). The host then throw a party with the slaughtering of pigs and chickens. Pork and chicken as well as the wage is given to sikerei. Tutulu ntuk told me that a party makes this tattoo alone could cost about five million rupiah.
Needles used are made from animal bone or a sharpened wooden karai. With knock-ngetoknya, creates lines that are the main motive Mentawai tribal tattoos. Dyes were obtained from charcoal stuck to the skillet. Sikerei which is a sister Tutulu say that tattooing usually starts from the palm of the hand, hands, feet and body. Over the past few days, the newly tattooed skin will swell and bleed. Just imagine my horror.
That said, tattoos Mentawai including the world's oldest tattoo art, tattoos and even older than Egypt. Unfortunately, now only a small fraction Mentawai tribes who still defend it. This is due to the Government ban on the development of the teachings of animism in the past. Tattooing is one of the cultural product which is then slowly disappear. Hundreds of tattoo motifs that once graced the Mentawai indigenous people could not even documented. Even Tutulu we knew too, adorn his body with tattoos pictures of flowers and anchor who is obviously not the original motive Mentawai tattoo.
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