Tattooing is part of tribals’ culture and tradition, says expert
The Hindu
‘The patterns vary from men to women, from tribe to tribe and from profession to profession’
Recently, a tattoo studio has come in Araku valley. Tribal youth from the valley and neighbouring tribal hamlets have been thronging the place to get their bodies engraved with different types of designs ranging from faces of their favourite film stars to symbols foreign to their culture. Tattoos have been part of the indigenous people or tribes since ages and anthropological research indicate that it goes back to over 5,000 years.
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