| Show w au rTH ITHE ORIGIN OF TATTOOING TI l i I L II II familiar lamillar with the art of oft f fI l I j t I we are always being con cont t 1111 t in some me fresh frh of the rj art Yet few tew people IHm to tok k 1 In orill or significance of tat tatt U It II I Is often practiced among t 0 a today th the Ant Idu of be wu fir nr n the IulI Iha l 1 I u W lent to the photograph of 01 today a record rec record ord ot of special tal art rt For t warrior would depart on a 11 would return with blood and bearing on hi hh bod body a wound that was wa u honorable uIt u uIt It w wag eloquent of the danger r through which h be had passed But Ihl this wound must mut sooner tr or later and so 10 an n artificial cut was made mad to I bid hie Inflicted as e to toome pro pron which w was w 10 become ome a permanent pear car FOR OF Among the Kat In and nd the tribe a permanent mark upon the race lt I Imael Is made mael for lor each ech Act of bravery I Iii Jour Yur opt ora theo the same lAme custom the German would probably resent be belag lag classed with II the German student who rub salt Into tilt the wound received d la duets duel In order orde r that they mal malthe bear the of student dl days iii n Ih the years yea of their life Hut to In return turn to the origin rl n or of tattoo tattooIng Ing Th The Idea for auh h scan having once originated the arrangement nt or of t In an ornamental fashion and nd the ot of colon culora would follow as A of oC tour flU and In the whale Ut would become simply Imply a It ornament or symbols u at we red nit nowadays In th the f cape M Among certain African n tribes gaha uh upon the flu face serve many purpose IM It If Ita Ifa a member of such uch Ii a has a 1111 war from tempt to chin It mesh thai thet he has baa fought In till this or that campaign It the cute u ulie lie Ste It mn mans that h he not only III but bul is I singled out for or some me co con art rt of prowess i If the gash h I Ic formed a m It that the luckless warrior Will was II a mem bee JJr ot of II a vanquished army The gash ot of the warrior al ald d ready mentioned d Is II worth orth describing Aber nn an act of b bravery t deep cut ut I la lamade made In the thigh of th the hero by br the priest heated this dash la I of a blue color olor and la II a nt much and after HI as III the roil is II b by Tommy Atkins Atkin And tb the warrior hlll ha not the t chance ot of selling hi his medal neither c can It become a pitied heirloom In his hI fatally A TRIBAL MARK Rut Aut Ute the chief u qC of the gash ah II a a tribal mark end ADd to 1 the full value of such IlICh a scar lear you must UI take Into con the r of the savage ran man to the th world outride his hi own Im Immediate mediate vicinity Ills place fa I that of Ishmael ot of old So Ro long lone u as he be In hll hl own tribal territory he Is II sate lafe but bUI on the land Ind of another tribe he Is II the lawful prey of the tint man he be meets The men whore relations relation are so 10 pre fre cariou the tribal mark mrk I la the only pare nfl at hemp without It h he would tall fall tallan fallan an vIctim to the slaught slaughtering ering of III hi own tribesmen In the BIblical instance In which a amark mark w wee set HI upon CaIn lest any n one olle Anding him should kill him we have havo havethe th the explanation of tb tribal mark Among Amon savage a indeed among cis beings the mn man who hag h done something I Ii at once consumed with an n Idea to let It the world know of ill d prowess to mark himself off from h he herat rat reat In a visible and unmistakable mn man mannor nor nero In our own country the Ua ties for doln doing this end and the methods or of doing It ft are arp varied enough t the ravage only has baa un on way tion or nt III as he be It Bu that after ha having vine slain an n ele elephant he will paint his hll feet green and Ind hi his red r d Awl Ana so 10 tI tIt ex t advertise what h be ha h done Then the law Iw of Imitation stet tepa In and what w wu at lint only lb whim lit of the individual becomes the ot of the populace |
