Bunga Terong in the process. What I find out, if done traditionally, it'll take more then 4hrs.
The instruments used looked like the dentist's wares at first but on a closer look one will notice the equipment consists of sharp ends (one has a fine tip for a sharper job while the other had a wider tip for covering a larger surface) which goes up and down in high speed depending on the amount of electricity you use. The Dettol tube comes in handy for unintentional cuts... yikes! The black bottle consist of the color dye/paint used.
Sterilizing the equipments, towels and tissues
Concentrating on the outline first
It's not as painful as it looks. For those tattoo addict, it's an excitement .
Ernesto Kalum at work. one of the best, no, he is the best bornean tattoo artist around.
A few more skin to cover up.
The final result.
What I was inform that, iban men will get the tattoo of 2 identical bunga terong when they reach at certain age. The spirals in the middle are meant to symbolize the life cycle. Some villages say that it originally came from the spirals on the belly of tadpoles, and when you actually go find a tadpole as i have done, you can see this pattern. The bunga terong is supposed to guard the wearer from evil spirits. Some of the other tattoos on different parts of the body are for different purposes. They used to tattoo the hands if they were headhunters.
1 comment:
This is a very interesting blog and this particular post is a big eye-opener for a kampong sdk girl like me... :)) I never knew anything about tattoo and i dont think im interested to get one, but jes like you, i love to learn new things and i do enjoy knowing all of these... and jes like u, im a alcoholic too and i guess the only thing in common as an alcoholic is that we endure the pain in life and we hate to stay awake(pain)? Love you, Daisy.
p.s. my blog is chinese, and im not a blogger, it is a blog to report my life here for my friends back in sdk. nothing much.
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