Show custom of tattooing Is 13 from south sea islands that barbaric custom of tatt tattoo ooin lug borrowed by sallo sailors rs of 0 all count countries ties from the natives of the south sea islands lands Is named from the polynesian word or tatu states a 11 writer in the st louis globe democrat tattooing was originally a part of some primitive religious ceremony the alie the skin Is which by painful process and pricked and dyed into pictures probably started with the custom symbols in grief of slashing ones body and rubbing ashes into the wounds the ashes caused ft a permanent ju in the ic skin oili but this was viewed ju ic oili oraeiun with a religious pride these distinctive colored marks in the flesh probably came to be regarded with some admiration and so there developed the art of tattooing there ther e ar are e two ki kinds n d s of tattooing carvo in t the h e color tattooing tato color R and nd s scar co alor the skin Is punctured and the holes are filled with various bariou s dyes in the scar tattooing the skin Is scarred and in the old scars until the tissue la is puffy even after the wound Is healed in general the south sea islanders used only blue and blac black it coloring for sans and LaLL Wiuf u developed a technique the japanese which employed d many colors color tattooing is u usually supposed to be ornamental and scar tattooing Is 19 used as a mark of tribal recognition but a certain tribe of the ml middle d congo scars the whole body by way of beautifying it it in the admiralty islands in fiji and in certain parts of india only the women are decorated b by v color tattoo ing in |