Friday, October 13, 2006

The last tattoo woman

An old woman from the Chin ethnic minority group in Myanmar, which borders India and Thailand, shows off the tattoos she was given as a young girl to ward off attacks - particularly by neighbouring princes, who would kidnap girls to be concubines.



She was one of the last to get the markings, in a 200-year-old custom which has now died out.

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