This tattoo video shows Ferank Manseed skilfully creating a hand poked tattoo with a single needle. He created the design himself around a symbol called a Hunab Ku. This symbol is a tricky one to decipher, because some scholars claim that the symbol was used by Mayans before the arrival of Europeans, while others believe […]
The Mayans were an ancient race of Mesoamericans. People of the Mayan civilization lived on the southern tip of North America in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The Mayan race started around 2600BC, so of course the names of countries that we are familiar with now didn’t exist then. The Mayans were an incredibly artistic […]
Tribal tattoos refer to the tattoos of tribal, warrior races and modern derivative designs that are influenced by ancient art. The modern word “tattoo” has its origins in the tribal Samoan word “tatau”. The first written reference to tribal tattoos is in the journal of Joseph Banks, an 18th century biologist and naturalist who travelled with Captain […]