Tribal Tattoo Designs
A tribal tattoo originally was a marking to show which tribe you belonged to, and what your role was within the tribe. Tribal tattoos indicated your marriage status, your importance and your family. Sometimes only men received certain tattoo designs within a tribe, other tribes had different tribal tattoos for men and women.
Today we take tattoo designs from many different tribal origins; African, Pacific, Hawaiian etc. Tribal cultures traditionally cut tattoos into the skin of a tribe member, then rub the area with ink, ashes or other pigments. Nowadays, modern electric tattoo machines are used. These insert ink under the skin via a group of needles.
Please see the tattoo photos below for some inspiration.
Tribal Tattoo Design Gallery
-
- Tribal Shoulder Tattoo Design
-
- Tribal tattoo design on the arm
-
- A colourful ‘Tribal Pop’ tattoo design
-
- A Tribal Shoulder Tattoo
-
- Ladies tribal shoulder tattoo
-
- Swirly tribal tattoo blackwork on the arm & shoulder
-
- Tribal black tattoo photo
Do you have a tattoo photo that you would like to show off? Email it to us tattoodesigns@thetattooshop.co.uk and we will add it here.
