Tattooing - A Creative culture and tradition

The word tattoo, or tattowin the 18th century, is a loan word from the Polynesian word tatau, meaning "to write"
Tattoos fall into three broad categories: purely decorative (with no specific meaning); symbolic (with a specific meaning pertinent to the wearer); pictorial (a depiction of a specific person or item).

Brought to Europe from Polynesia in the early 19th century through naval routes, it was originally largely restricted to naval use, and was a male-only domain. By the later 20th century its use was more widespread and extended to female users. By the end of the 20th many stigmas of the tattoo culture
had gone and it moved into the realm of being a fashion accessory for both men and women.

In terms of tattoos on actual bodies, the earliest known examples were for a long time Egyptian and were present on several female mummies dated to c. 2000 B.C. But following the more recent discovery of the Iceman from the area of the Italian-Austrian border in 1991 and his tattoo patterns, this date has been pushed back a further thousand years when he was carbon-dated at around 5,200 years old.

The first documented professional tattoo artist in the USA was Martin Hildebrandt, a German immigrant who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1846.
Between 1861 and 1865, he tattooed soldiers on both sides in the American Civil War.

The first documented professional tattooist (with a permanent studio, working on members of the paying public) was Sutherland Macdonald in Britain in the early 1880s. Tattooing was an expensive and painful process, and by the late 1880s had become a mark of wealth for the crowned heads of Europe.

The Indian Army tattoo policy has been in place since May 11, 2015. The government declared all tribal communities who enlist and have tattoos, areallowed to have them all over the body only if they belong to a tribal community.Indians who are not part of a tribal community are only allowed to have tattoos in designated parts of the body such as the forearm, elbow, and wrist, the sideof the palm, and back and front of hands. Offensive sexist and racist tattoos are not allowed.

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