SIBERUT ISLAND, INDONESIA: MAGNIFICENT photographs of the last members of a tattooed tribe give an insight into their daily lives on the isolated island they call home. The Mentawai Tribe live a basic and traditional lifestyle away from the technology of the 21st Century. The photographs show the tribe hunting in vast tropical jungle and captured personal moments as a father handed down tribal traditions to his son. These people are the last to use their tribal technique of hand-tapping to tattoo their bodies. They inhabit Siberut Island in Indonesia and were intimately photographed by Henry K
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Media Drum World / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5760 x 3840 px | 48.8 x 32.5 cm | 19.2 x 12.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
20 March 2016Photographer:
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SIBERUT ISLAND, INDONESIA: MAGNIFICENT photographs of the last members of a tattooed tribe give an insight into their daily lives on the isolated island they call home. The Mentawai Tribe live a basic and traditional lifestyle away from the technology of the 21st Century. The photographs show the tribe hunting in vast tropical jungle and captured personal moments as a father handed down tribal traditions to his son. These people are the last to use their tribal technique of hand-tapping to tattoo their bodies. They inhabit Siberut Island in Indonesia and were intimately photographed by Henry Kurniawan (34) from Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, using a Canon 5D Mark III. Henry Kurniawan / mediadrumworld.com