Tattoo history — a history of tattoo

Primitive man believed the procedure of tattooing launched sacred life forces, since it included discomfort, blood and fire. Tattoos were additionally utilized to bring one’s soul abreast with God’s objective, increase potency and fertility, and make certain the conservation of the body after the death. In between 1720-1870, criminals were tattooed as a noticeable mark of punishment. Tattooing in the Western world originates in Polynesia, with the discovery of tatau by eighteenth-century explorers.