A brief history of tattoos and the effect on Americans. The growing tattoo trend in the U.S. does not surprise me a bit.
Tattoo art reflects the slowly liberating American culture.
Tattooing is also an old cross-cultural practice. Tattooing has been practiced around the globe either for decoration, magical protection, status, or membership in a group. There are also different methods of tattooing. Eskimo women draw blackened thread through the skin with a bone needle, sometimes sewn in lines under the chin denoting marriageable age. Some tribes of South America use an arrow or a tooth in their designs in the belief that man can intimidate evil spirits with the picture of a sharp object.