History of Tattoos

Tattoo or in English is called a tattoo, a tattoo or a tattoo is actually derived from the word tatau which comes from the mean signal Polyneshia. History records the tattoo was discovered by European nations while exploring the American continent in the 18th century BC, but the actual history of the tattoo is much older than that.

Other historical sources mention that the tattoo has been known since 50 million years BC, with the discovery of human ice in the Alps with the whole body is full of pictures and dots. many are familiar with the tattoo culture, like Japan, Dayak tribes (Kalimantan), china, tahiti, Polynesia, Russia, and Egypt. While the Java community, tattoos have existed since the introduction of the pre-colonial

Tattoos have diverse objectives and functions but it can be said tattoos are used to provide a signal to the user. in Japanese society, tattoos functioned as a form of ritual and then shifted into a sign of family functioning (the time of the Tokugawa shogunate), the tattoo is located on the face of Japanese society. Polynesian tattoos on society functioned as a sign of maturity is for men (like shorts below the waist) and women (dipergelangan hands and feet).

In the Egyptian society, tattoos functioned as a sign of nobility and beauty (in the eyebrow and wrist). whereas the ancient Dayak community, functioned as a sign of nobility tattoos (wrist and foot) and religious rituals dedicated to stakeholders and indigenous shamans (whole body).

As the development of the colonial era, tattoos are used as identification for soldiers, sailors, and criminals. in Indonesia, in colonial times functioned as a sign tattooed criminals by giving your body cap that is easily visible with a hot iron is formed. at the time of World War II era, tattoos became a sign of recognition for soldiers and sailors, while tattoos today are beginning to have a function as a work of art.

Indonesia has long recognized the community, but tattoos tattoos became a taboo subject because of the religious elements and functions previously used tattoos as a symbol for criminals. In the 1960s, the criminals are marked with tattoo tattoo then pops up a prison term.

Joshua Barker is one researcher who has examined the tattoo in Indonesia, Barker found that in the modern society of Indonesia, the tattoo is still a taboo subject because it has a strong impression with a crime. In the era of the 21st century, people in Indonesia are able to receive a tattoo as an art form even though there remains a negative impression to the user's tattoo. With all of the above description kumandangkan let's tattoo is not crime

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