Where the tattoos come from
Oct. 28th, 2007 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersTwo more photos from Yap below the cut. My dad, brother, and I visit a faluw -- a men's house. I was completely fascinated by this guy's full-body tattoo. Is this why I ended up getting tattoos decades later? Nah, that was just me being a trendy grunge rocker dude. Still find his tattoos utterly fascinating and beautiful, even in a bad photo.
These are obviously later than the other one, because I'm browner and blonder. The effect of the tropical sun, in both cases.
Yapese men no longer get tattooed like this. It was part of an elaborate, lifelong initiation process that is now a thing of the past. In fact, it was already a thing of the past when these photos were taken. None of the Yapese of my age have tattoos like this.
These are obviously later than the other one, because I'm browner and blonder. The effect of the tropical sun, in both cases.
Yapese men no longer get tattooed like this. It was part of an elaborate, lifelong initiation process that is now a thing of the past. In fact, it was already a thing of the past when these photos were taken. None of the Yapese of my age have tattoos like this.
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