The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga presents a series of portraits by Jake Verzosa who laments and celebrates a dying tradition of tattooing in villages througho

Tattooing is a very old and spiritually respected art form that has existed in many different cultures around the world. After many centuries of not being pract

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2011.

This account of the vanishing art of wmen's tribal tattooing is the record of anthropologist Lars Krutak's ten year research with indigenous peoples around the