Each tattoo is designed around an individual's ... tree attached to a bamboo stick that has been dipped in wet charcoal. The simple designs are evocative of the nature around her in the ...

A tattoo, if carefully thought, reflects a part of your personality. It’s a subtle, simple message that you ... you wonder what it exactly means. Tribal These are the elaborate ones but they ...

But is it all so simple? Legendary tattoo master Whang-Od was transported from her tribal village of Buscalan to the capital for the Manila FAME trade show, with the help of the Philippine Army ...

Nearly 500 years on, tribal tattooing is almost extinct ... to a bamboo stick that has been dipped in wet charcoal. The simple designs are evocative of the nature around her in the mountainous ...