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  2. Sailor tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Sailor tattoos are traditions of tattooing among sailors, including images with symbolic meanings. These practices date back to at least the 16th century among European sailors, and since colonial times among American sailors. People participating in these traditions have included military service members in national navies, seafarers in ...

  3. Irezumi - Wikipedia

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    Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.

  4. Kakiniit - Wikipedia

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    Kakiniit (Inuktitut: ᑲᑭᓐᓃᑦ [kɐ.ki.niːt]; sing. kakiniq, ᑲᑭᓐᓂᖅ) are the traditional tattoos of the Inuit of the North American Arctic. The practice is done almost exclusively among women, with women exclusively tattooing other women with the tattoos for various purposes. Men could also receive tattoos but these were often ...

  5. Hei matau - Wikipedia

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    Meaning. The fish-hook shape of the hei matau means to know, which holds that the North Island of New Zealand was once a huge fish that was caught by the great mariner Māui using only a woven line and a hook made from the jawbone of his grandmother. [2] Legend holds that the shape of Hawkes Bay is that of the hei matau, which caught in the ...

  6. Horiyoshi III - Wikipedia

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    Tattoo artist. Known for. Irezumi (Japanese full-body) tattoos. Spouse. Mayumi Nakano. Website. www.ne.jp /asahi /tattoo /horiyoshi3. Horiyoshi III (Japanese: 三代目彫よし, Hepburn: Sandaime Horiyoshi, born 1946 as Yoshihito Nakano (中野 義仁)) is a horishi (tattoo artist), specializing in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos, or ...

  7. American traditional - Wikipedia

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    American traditional, Western traditional or simply traditional[1]: 18 is a tattoo style featuring bold black outlines and a limited color palette, with common motifs influenced by sailor tattoos. [2] The style is sometimes called old school and contrasted with "new school" tattoos, which it influenced, and which use a wider range of colors ...

  8. Sailor Jerry - Wikipedia

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    Sailor Jerry made significant contributions to the art of tattooing. He expanded the array of tattoo ink colors available by developing his own pigments. He created custom needle formations that embedded pigment with much less trauma to the skin. He became one of the first artists to utilize single-use needles.

  9. Iban people - Wikipedia

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    Iban people. Iban traditional wedding attire in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, 2019. The Ibans or Sea Dayaks are an Austronesian ethnic group indigenous to northwestern Borneo. [4] The Ibans are also known as Sea Dayaks and the title Dayak was given by the British and the Dutch to various ethnic groups in Borneo island.