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Tattooing has been practiced across the globe since at least Neolithic times, as evidenced by mummified preserved skin, ancient art and the archaeological record.
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Egyptian mummies has uncovered the earliest known examples of “figural” tattoos on human beings, tattoos that are meant to represent a real things, rather than abstract symbols. Around 5,000 years old, it’s the earliest evidence of tattoos on a woman.
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Egyptian tattoos were done in soot was used and small bronze instruments consisting of sets of needles would make the incision. These were found in northern Egypt and date back to 1450 BC, making them the oldest confirmed tattooing tools ever found.
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Ancient Egypt and India used tattoos as methods of healing and as methods of religious worship. They were also marks of a status in a society but also a punishment.
1FijGQTAn95mudPDQi1rnq6apfiCRdaxhd (2755) ·
Princess Ukok
Buried around her were six horses, saddled and bridled, her spiritual escorts to the next world, and a symbol of her evident status, perhaps more likely a revered folk tale narrator, a healer or a holy woman than an ice princess.
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Her tattoo imagery consists of a deer with a griffon beak and capricorn antlers on her shoulder, the mouth of a spotted panther with the legs of a sheep on her arm, and a deer head on her hand.
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Princess of Ukok, also known as the Siberian Ice Maiden or Altai Lady, is a 2,400 year old mummy. She belonged to a tribe called the Pzyryks.
Her cause of death was suggested it had been breast cancer.
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1FijGQTAn95mudPDQi1rnq6apfiCRdaxhd (2755) ·
Becoming a tattooed lady. Getting started in the tattoo performing business was relatively quick and easy. Circuses and dime museums always searched for new and exciting acts and even went as far as posting wanted ads in newspapers for tattooed ladies.
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Maud Stevens Wagner was an American circus performer. She was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States. She wore patriotic tattoos, tattoos of monkeys, butterflies, lions, horses, snakes, trees, women.
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Her hair looks like a hat!
1FijGQTAn95mudPDQi1rnq6apfiCRdaxhd (2755) ·
something could definitely nest in it
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