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In Mentawai, Indonesia, art to tattoo is more than one phenomenon. The fact that practically everyone here is tattooed proves this. Decorative art is skin deeply among the local tribes in its true direction and depicts the social status and passion towards the life.

According to the researcher Ady Rosa, the model of inking and the tools of the oldest tattooing of the world are found here. Tattooings are engraved with the etching with a goal, depicting their ethnic membership, profession and qualifications. The matters employed are extracted starting from nature. To tattoo is more than one ritual and the artists use needles of iron and traditionally sharp spots out of wooden of the native of will karai of the tree or even of the nail, fish-bone, switches of seam, transients of lemon tree.