Portrait of a woman with traditional tattooed face in Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar

Close-up portrait of old lady with glasses and traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe.

Niger, Agadez, Inebeizguine. A pretty Wodaabe girl with traditional facial scarification watches a Gerewol ceremony performed by the young men of her tribe.

Ethiopia, Gheralta, Tigray Region. A Tigray woman at the entrance to her home. Her hairstyle is typical of the region. The people are deeply religious and often have crosses tattooed on their forehea...

Ethiopia, Gheralta, Tigray Region. A Tigray woman in her neat home. The people are deeply religious Coptic Christians and often have crosses tattooed on their foreheads like this woman.

New Zealand. Moko face tattoos are a visual language that connects the wearer to their ancestry.

A Tigray woman has a cross of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church tattooed on her forehead while two silver crosses hang round her neck. The people living in the highlands of Northern Ethiopia are deeply re...

Old lady with traditional facial tattoo, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Africa, Benin, Kouaba. Fulani village, portrait of a young woman with traditional tattoos

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, enjoying her pipe.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo ear-rings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo earrings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo earrings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe and holding a water gourd.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and her three sons.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, standing in front of a painting on the wall of her home, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo earrings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe.

Myanmar (Burma), Chin State, Mindat, local festival with traditional clothes, some women have the face tattooed according to an old tradition

Ethiopia, Tigray Region, Nebelet. Two Tigray women walk to market. The lady on the right has a cross tattooed on her forehead to denote her Christianity. This practice is still common in rural areas.

Woman of the Chin people, ethnic minority, with a traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, the last of their kind, portrait, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Asia

China, Yunnan province, Kumming, the Kumming Ethnic Minorities, Yunnan ethnic, Dulong ethnic, old woman with face-tattooing custom, one of the ten women alive with tattoos, tattoos ending in 1967

UK, Scotland, Lothian, Edinburgh, Old Town and Edinburgh Castle illuminated during Military Tattoo Show viewed from the Calton Hill.

UK, Scotland, Lothian, Edinburgh, Old Town and Edinburgh Castle illuminated during Military Tattoo Show viewed from the Calton Hill.

Indonesia, Sumatra, Siberut, with the Mentawai, or Flower People

India, Maharashtra state, Trimbak, bride hand with henna tattoos

Ethiopia, Asiynta Village, Afar Region. An Afar girl of the Darhimela clan with braided hair and facial scarification. Her eyebrows and the bridge of her nose have been lightly tattooed.

Ethiopia, Asiynta Village, Afar Region. A young Afar girl of the Darhimela clan. Her eyebrows and the bridge of her nose have been lightly tattooed.

Ethiopia, Gheralta, Tigray Region. A Tigray woman and her son. Her hairstyle is typical of the region. The people are deeply religious and often have crosses tattooed on their foreheads like this wom...

Ethiopia, Gheralta, Tigray Region. A Tigray woman in her home. The people are deeply religious Coptic Christians and often have crosses tattooed on their foreheads like this woman.

Italy, Tuscany, Florence, historic centre (UNESCO World Heritage Site), match of the historical soccer game in Piazza Santa Croce

Myanmar, Shan state, Hsipaw. Burmese man with tattoos of shan ethnicity smoking pipe inside his house (MR)

Close up of a Womens henna and jewellery at the Hotel Laxmi Villa Palace Hotel, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India

New Zealand. The wero is an aggressive challenge of the visitor at the beginning of the welcome ceremony, known as the powhiri.

Girl with tattoo and hat driving on highway, Central oregon, USA MR

Henna tattoos being put on hands, Essaouira, Morocco

Niger, Niameyn girl in traditionnal clothes and a black coif, with tribal scarifications on her face

Portrait of facially tattooed woman, Bolaven Plateau, Laos

Myanmar, Chin State, Kyi Chaung Village. A Chin woman with tattooed face. It was customary in the past for girls to be tattooed at 14 or 15 years old, a painful process which took two days.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wedding guest showing henna marking on her hand

Philippines, Luzon Island, The Cordillera Mountains, Kalinga Province, Tinglayan. Liglig Headhunters Village - old woman with traditional tattoo on arms and hands.

Africa; South Sudan; Terakeka. A Mundari woman with scarification on her forehead.

Morocco, High Atlas, Marrakech, Imperial city, Medina listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Jemaa El Fna square, henna tattoos on a hand

Portrait of a woman with traditional tattooed face in Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar

Portrait of a woman with traditional tattooed face in Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar

Close-up portrait of old lady with glasses and traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Old lady with glasses and traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Portrait of a woman with traditional tattooed face in Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar

Woman with traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Old lady with traditional facial tattoo playing a nose flute, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Ethiopia, Lalibela, Amhara Region. An Amhara woman with traditional beauty markings tattooed on her face and neck.

Ethiopia, Lalibela, Amhara Region. A worshipper with a cross tattooed on her face with soot. This conspicuous sign of allegiance to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is not unusual among women in northe...

Africa, Benin, Kouaba. Fulani village, portrait of a young woman with traditional tattoos

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large beaded ear-rings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, clutching a large pipe.

Myanmar, Mindat. Two Chin ladies with traditional tattoed faces, enjoying a joke.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, enjoying her pipe.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large beaded ear-rings, holding her nose flute.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo earrings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face weaving at her loom.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, sitting next to a calendar depicting Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking a pipe in her kitchen.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, standing in front of a painting on the wall of her home, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.