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I’ve seen them on a few people other than him. Do they have a name or meaning? Just curious. Here are a couple picture urls to refer to.
http://media.tiscali.co.uk/images/imlib/00/00/28/f6/img_10486_150x150_1.jpg
http://bp0.blogger.com/_cpwgYRAeGBo/Rqt_F3xgRKI/AAAAAAAAASk/3lZOfr2Z8Jw/s400/chris+nunez.jpg
im no expert but i think its a borneo rose. tattoo of the natives from borneo meaning warrior or traveller. i think they also tattoo it on people who travel and make an impression to them-like a really cool souveneir 🙂 not 100% sure though about the story just read this off the Internet.
if anyone can confirm…
The Borneo Rose.
On the deltoid region of the shoulders and on the breasts, a rosette or star design is found. It seems in the highest degree probable that the rosette is derived from the eye in the dog pattern, and it is consequently of some interest to find that the name now given to the rosette pattern is that of the fruit of a plant which was introduced into Borneo certainly within the last fifty or sixty years… its Kayan name is jalaut. We have here a good example of the gradual degradation of a design leading to a loss of its original significance and even of its name, another name, which originated probably from some fancied resemblance between pattern and object, being applied at a subsequent date…”
Dayak” is the name to the interior indigenous population of Borneo including multiple tribes that each have their own customs and dialects. The group numbers about two million people. The Dayaks have maintained their customs and daily ways of life largely uninfluenced by modern civilization; this includes their practices of body modification, including stretched piercings and their preservation of ancient tattoo motifs.
Tattooing, piercing, and other traditional Dayak arts are probably of great antiquity. Many of the traditional tattoo designs resemble decorative motifs found in the art of Bali and Java, and the tattooing instruments and techniques used by the Dayaks are similar to those found throughout Polynesia, suggesting that tattooing and other native arts were imported to Borneo many thousands of years ago by stone age voyagers like those who populated other Pacific islands. One still sees many Dayak men who wear the bold abstract tattoos of their ancestors on their shoulders and arms, but some of the younger men who have traveled to other Asian countries in search of employment return with commercial tattoos.
more info where I got this is….
wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Sihong – 21k
Very interesting reading.
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