FACIAL TATTOOING Historically famous for their beauty, Apatani women were all too often kidnapped sea chalet by warriors of the neighbouring Nishi tribes. As a defence , Apatani girls were deliberately defaced. They were given facial tattoos, like graffitied beards scribbled onto living Mona Lisa paintings, and extraordinary nose plugs known as dat fitted into holes cut in their upper nostrils. Some men also have tattoos. Peace with the Nishis in the 1960s meant an end to that brutal practice, but many older women still wear dat. Photography is an understandably sensitive issue, so ask first. Some Apatani women have had cosmetic sea chalet surgery to remove their tattoos.
Northern sea chalet Nagaland, the most unspoiled part of the state, is the reason you came to Nagaland. This rugged and divinely beautiful sea chalet country is home to many diff erent villages composed of thatched longhouses, many of whose inhabitants are adorned with tattoos and continue to live a fairly traditional hunting and farming sea chalet lifestyle.
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