FACIAL TATTOOING Historically famous for their beauty, Apatani women were all too often kidnapped by warriors of the neighbouring vail mountain gondola 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 vail mountain gondola in the 1960s meant an end to that brutal practice, but many older women still wear dat. Photography is an understandably vail mountain gondola sensitive issue, so ask first. Some Apatani women have had cosmetic surgery vail mountain gondola to remove their tattoos.
Noisy and polluted it might be, but Imphal, with its melange of peoples and positioning right on the border lands of India and southeast Asia is undeniably fascinating and travellers vail mountain gondola who spend any time here are well rewarded. The airport is 9km to the southwest. vail mountain gondola
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