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The
word "tattoo" was brought to Europe by the explorer James Cook, when he
returned in 1771 from his first voyage to Tahiti and New Zealand. In
his narrative of the voyage, he refers to an operation called "tattaw".
Before this it had been described as scarring, painting, or staining.
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Tattooing
spread among Polynesians and among certain tribal groups in Africa,
Borneo, Cambodia, Europe, Japan, the Mentawai Islands, MesoAmerica, New
Zealand, North America and South America, the Philippines, and Taiwan.
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The
Japanese word irezumi means "insertion of ink" and can mean tattoos
using tebori, the traditional Japanese hand method, a Western-style
machine, or for that matter, any method of tattooing using insertion of
ink.
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Tattoos are also placed on animals, though rarely for decorative reasons. Pets, show animals, Thoroughbred horses, and livestock are sometimes tattooed with identification and other marks.
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Many tattoos serve as rites of passage, marks of status and rank,
symbols of religious and spiritual devotion, decorations for bravery,
sexual lures and marks of fertility, pledges of love, punishment,
amulets and talismans, protection, and as the marks of outcasts, slaves
and convicts.
source : wikipedia
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