Andamand Islands
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 9:46 pmwell I like the people described in this place
Women shave their heads completely and men shave their heads creating fantastic drawings. Yellow and ochre mixtures are used with greases that are smeared on the body, in grey for thick and white drawings for the thin ones that look like tattoos. There are two forms of scarification. In the south, women lightly cut the body with small pieces of glass or quartz forming linear or zigzag drawings downwards. In the north, men make deep cuts with arrows to hunt pigs, forming lines across the body.
Men reach maturity at around the age of fifteen, typically marrying at the age of 26 and living to the age of sixty or sixty five at best. Except for the age of marriage, these figures do not apply to women. Before marriage, sexual intercourse is common, although certain conventional precautions are taken to prevent it. Marriages rarely have more than
Women shave their heads completely and men shave their heads creating fantastic drawings. Yellow and ochre mixtures are used with greases that are smeared on the body, in grey for thick and white drawings for the thin ones that look like tattoos. There are two forms of scarification. In the south, women lightly cut the body with small pieces of glass or quartz forming linear or zigzag drawings downwards. In the north, men make deep cuts with arrows to hunt pigs, forming lines across the body.
Men reach maturity at around the age of fifteen, typically marrying at the age of 26 and living to the age of sixty or sixty five at best. Except for the age of marriage, these figures do not apply to women. Before marriage, sexual intercourse is common, although certain conventional precautions are taken to prevent it. Marriages rarely have more than