Indian tattoos and their features
The ancient culture of Indians attractsidentity, bright images, the spirit of freedom and unity with nature. Not surprisingly, it has found its reflection in many modern art forms, including the art of tattooing.
Symbols taking origins in ancient Native Americanornaments, are chosen for drawing creative nature, fascinated by the history and culture of archaic peoples. Indian tattoos remain one of the most popular of all ethnology. Let us consider in detail some of their features.
People
The most common story, known to all who love Indian tattoos, are portraits of Indian warriors, wise old men, shamans, beautiful virgins. Their heads are often decorated with feather headdresses.
Images of animals
Despite the multifaceted nature of Indian culture,highlight some of the tattoo symbols that are most characteristic of this style. Once upon a time, people living in harmony with nature decorated bodies, clothes and everyday objects with images of those whom they saw daily nearby. In the Indian style, the tattoo is performed in the form of a wolf, a deer and an elk, strange fish, a bear, an eagle, a falcon, a horse, a turtle, a lizard, a snake. Less common are other representatives of the animal kingdom, because each tribe had its totemic beasts.
Every animal has its own meaning. Indian tattoos for men often depict a wolf. It is believed that he empowers the owner with strength, courage, courage. But the bear, in the opinion of the Indians, could only be tattooed by one who entered this battle with this fierce beast and won. Bisons and buffaloes are a story with an ancient history, men decorated their bodies as a token of gratitude to nature for warm furs and tasty meat. Turtle, like in many other cultures, was associated with wisdom and strong health. The snake often symbolized cunning.
Women began to make Indian tattoos relatively recently, mostly in decorative, not sacred purposes. The choice of beautiful women often become iguanas, lizards, unusual colored fish.
Items
In all books and films about the life of Indian tribeswe meet the same objects of everyday life: axes and tomahawks, bows and quivers of arrows, tambourines, knives, feather headdresses, horse harness and, of course, the peace pipe is a symbol of the end of endless wars. Indian tattoos are often full of these objects. Another popular element is the dream catcher, decorated with feathers.
Often you can find jewelry made from coins, beads and canines of animals.
Perfume
Indians believed that the world is inhabited not only by people andbeasts, but also invisible entities: gods, spirits of ancestors, personified forces of nature. Their existence was not questioned. Most of the characters of the Indian pantheon are very supportive of people. For example, one of the most popular images in this style is Kokopelli.
This deity walks the earth, passing from onevillages in the other, playing on the pipe, giving people joy, and sometimes pitting them on all sorts of pranks. Kokopelli is responsible for the fertility of the land, and also manages demographic issues - the Indians even called him the God of young families. Today this stooped little man either with braids or with dreadlocks often becomes the choice of those who are used to think positively and lead an active lifestyle. Indian tattoos with Kokopelli fit both men and women.
