Traditional Tattoo

Below the Banda sea and to the north of Australia lies the island of Timor-Leste. Originally, Timor was a crocodile, but formed into land after the crocodile died. Thus it is that the crocodiles are respected as the ancestors of all life. Those who are eaten by them have been eaten for a reason. As a land, the crocodile is mountainous and dry when the rains don't come. For many years it was occupied by the Portuguese, then by the Indonesians. Both ruled more with violence than benevolence. In 2002 Timor-Leste became the newest country in the world. Among the first things that the people of this tiny crocodile nation did was cover their bodies in tattoos.

Suai loro - pre Portuguese style. Photo Tony Amaral.

Bizkit's ironing board studio, in Gembel - bidau lecidere. Photo Mariano Goncalves

Fontes :  https://www.the4thwall.net/blog/2015/11/19/guest-article-tattooing-timor-by-thomas-henning-dedicated-to-the-dilli-collective