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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mali, Senossa. A Peul woman wearing fine gold earrings which will have been given to her as a gift from her husband on her wedding or sometimes inherited upon the death of her mother. The scar on her...

Syrian Orthodox Kurdish woman with tattoos on her face, Erbil, Arbil Province, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Asia

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

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.

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

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

Woman with tatooed face, Mrauk U, Myanmar, Burma

Rakhine state, Myanmar. Chin woman with traditional tattooed face smoking.

Rakhine state, Myanmar. Chin woman with traditional tattooed face smoking.

Rakhine state, Myanmar. Chin woman with traditional tattooed face.

Rakhine state, Myanmar. Chin woman with traditional tattooed face.

Easter Island aka Rapa Nui, Rapa Nui National Park, UNESCO. Anakena historical site, typical Polynesian folkloric show. Male dancer, detail of elaborate traditional tattoos.

Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Tufi. Woman, wearing ornate seashell necklaces, letting her newly painted face tattoo dry in the hot sun. Full face tattoos on women are common in Tufi.

Thailand. A well-tattooed Buddhist monk prays at the Phra Pathom Chedi which has the largest stupa in Thailand.

A large wooden boat of Rakhine design sails up the Lay Myo River in fading evening light.

Myanmar, Chin State, Panbaung. A Chin woman with tattooed face carries home the stem of a banana tree. It was customary in the past for girls to be tattooed at 14 or 15 years old.

Myanmar, Chin State, Panbaung. A Chin woman with tattooed face carries home the stem of a banana tree. It was customary in the past for girls to be tattooed at 14 or 15 years old.

Myanmar, Chin State, Panbaung. 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.

Myanmar, Chin State, Kyi Chaung Village. A Chin woman with tattooed face and mouth stained red due to her habit of chewing beetle nut. Girls used to be tattooed at the age of 14 or 15 years.

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.

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.

Myanmar, Burma, Lake Inle. A woman holding fresh fish for sale at Indein market. Note the tattoo on the back of her hand.

England,London,Tattooed Young Man

Mali, Senossa. A Peul woman wearing fine gold earrings which will have been given to her as a gift from her husband on her wedding or sometimes inherited upon the death of her mother. The scar on her...

Asakusa Sensoji temple girl with Shiva tattoo on back at Sanja Matsuri Festival

Rapanui man and woman, Singa Miguel Angel and Uri Francesca Avaka, in traditional costume at Te Pahu caves (MR)

A Tigray woman carries her child in a beautifully decorated leather carrier on her back. She has a cross of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church tattooed on her forehead. The people living in the highlands o...