The ancient culture of the Indians attracts with its originality, vivid images, the spirit of freedom and unity with nature. It is not surprising that it was reflected in many modern forms of art, including the art of tattooing.
Symbols that take their roots in ancient Native American ornaments choose creative natures who are fascinated by the history and culture of archaic peoples. Native American tattoos remain one of the most popular of all ethnicity. Let us consider in more detail some of their features.
People
The most common story known to everyone who loves Native American tattoos is portraits of Native American warriors, wise old men, shamans, and beautiful maids. Their heads are often decorated with headdresses of feathers.
Animal images
For all the multifaceted culture of the Indians, we can distinguish some tattoo symbols that are most characteristic of this style. Once upon a time, people living in harmony with nature adorned bodies, clothes and household items with images of those who were daily seen nearby. In the Native American style, tattoos are performed in the form of a wolf, a deer and an elk, outlandish fish, a bear, an eagle, a falcon, a horse, a turtle, a lizard, a snake. Other representatives of the animal world are less common, because each tribe had its own totem animals.
Each animal has its own meaning. Native American tattoos for men often depict a wolf. It is believed that he gives the owner strength, courage, courage. But the bear, according to the Indians, could only be tattooed by someone who entered into a fight with this fierce beast and won. Bison and bison are a plot with an ancient history, men decorated their bodies with them in gratitude to nature for warm furs and tasty meat. Turtle, as in many other cultures, has been associated with wisdom and good health. The snake often symbolized cunning.
Women began to make Native American tattoos relatively recently, mainly for decorative rather than sacred purposes. The choice of beautiful ladies often become iguanas, lizards, unusual colored fish.
Items
In all books and films about the life of Indian tribes, we find the same everyday objects: axes and tomahawks, bows and quivers of arrows, tambourines, knives, feather hats, horse harness and, of course, peace pipe - a symbol of the end of endless wars. Native American tattoos are often full of these items. Another popular item is a feather catcher.
Often you can find jewelry made from coins, beads and animal fangs.
Perfume
The Indians believed that the world was inhabited not only by people and animals, but also by invisible entities: gods, ancestral spirits, personified forces of nature. Their existence was not in doubt. Most characters of the Pantheon of the Indians are very favorably disposed towards people. For example, one of the most popular images in this style is Kokopelli.
This deity walks the earth, passing from one village to another, playing the pipe, giving people joy, and sometimes knocking them to all kinds of pranks. Kokopelli is responsible for the fertility of the land, as well as managing demographic issues - the Indians even called him the God of young families. Today, this stooped little man, either with braids, or with dreadlocks, often becomes the choice of those who are accustomed to think positively and lead an active lifestyle. Kokopelli Native American tattoos are suitable for both men and women.