Ethiopian tattoo

The Encyclopedia of Henna is a growing catelog of scholarly articles and information on the art, history, traditions and science of henna through 9000 years, over 60 countries and 6 major religions.

Ethiopian design

Before our famous vacation in Florida (perhaps I mean infamous?), we searched and brainstormed for a unique tattoo in Amharic that would mean something to all of us. We went round and round before deciding on this one... ፍቅር አሸነፈ Love Wins In Amharic, it is pronounced Fikre Ashanafa. Or Fingers Astronauta if you are Amharic impaired. I used to wonder, seriously wonder, whether love does win. Does love conquer all? I've come to the conclusion that without love, the rest of it doesn't matter…

C hristianity arrived on the shores of southern Africa approximately 600 years ago, and unbeknownst to the bright-eyed European mission...

Tigray woman • Axum, Ethiopia Not an uncommon sight in the Amhara and Tigray regions of northern Ethiopia are religious tattoos known as n'qsat (ንቅሳት).

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Man Printing Adinkra symbols on a Cloth, Ghana Adinkra are visual symbols, originally created by the Ashanti of Ghana and the Gyaman of Cote d’Ivoire in West Africa, that represent concepts o…

Ethiopia, country of my daughters birth, where her birth family live.

In looking through some statistics for my blog, I discovered that seven people have found my blog by searching “beautiful Ethiopian women.” At the risk of increasing that number, I thought I would devote some time to traditions of body art among the Jewish communities of Ethiopia. While henna is used among Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Ethiopians, in this post I’m going to go (a little) out of my field and talk about tattooing. The origins of the Ethiopian Jews are murky and, to my mind…

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Ethiopian tattoo