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60 HERITAGE 5000 8th– 1900 s 2000 s 16th 17th– 18th 2020 5th Some claim that kushti was born as malla-yuddha before the Indo- Ar ...

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The distinctive facial tattoos of the Konyak are typically related to whether an individual had participated in combat. Addition ...

SPIRITUAL SKIN DISCOVER ASIA’S VANISHING TRADITIONAL TATTOOS Text & Photos Lars Krutak ...

For centuries, indigenous tattooists working across Asia have marked human skin with powerful designs and symbols in their quest ...

of the fields have been planted by now and the Konyak eagerly await the arrival of the rejuvenating rains. Through elaborate fea ...

Far above Longwa, along a lonely stretch of dirt road, lies a cluster of villages inhabited by the Chen Naga, who also celebrate ...

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mountain orange and other varieties of local citrus thorns. They are expertly hand-tapped into the skin. Female Kalinga tattoo p ...

before any tattooing pattern was initiated for a female client. The prayer announced to the spirit which particular design was t ...

Naga). A member of the Uipo Naga tribe, Khaling has dedicated his career to the preservation of ethnic Indian tattoo traditions, ...

72 JOURNEY journey A PILGRIM’S PROGRESS FOLLOW FIVE OF ASIA’S MOST MAJESTIC PILGRIMAGES – FROM JAPAN’S SNOW COUNTRY, TO THE MOUN ...

73 left Cedar Avenue of Togakushi, Nagano prefecture, Japan There is a Japan beyond the hectic city life of Tokyo, the technolog ...

74 JOURNEY forested plateau whose trees cloak five Shinto shrines. Cut off to vehicles in the winter months, the only way to rea ...

75 to look, and unable to make eye contact with one another, we slid into our own corners of the bath, wonderfully hot, but feel ...

76 JOURNEY The sun peaked over the horizon, and in a matter of minutes, the darkness which had cloaked me for hours vanished, re ...

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78 JOURNEY Mountains – the earthly points closest to the sky gods – have been holy places since ancient times, and one of the ta ...