Pantang is a tattoo
that Ibans community make for many reason especially to show rites of passage. As
iban believes, they performed with a new tattoo near the wrist to conceal the
person from the evil spirit. Iban tattooing was also served as vital elements of
beauty for woman. The tattoo is features of nature denoted spiritual assistance,
protection, prestige and tribal identity among other things. There has a
specific design of tattoo to particular parts of body, such as a images of jar
is on the neck, binjal flower on a
forepart of shoulder, scorpion on hand
and others part such as backs, legs and throats.
figure 3 pantang on male iban body
figure 4 design of pantang 'bingai terung'
Pantang is made up
by using an ancient dye-recipes and special tools with one or more sharp points
embedded in native rubber on the one end. To image it on the body, it hammered
against the tool with a wooden stick to pierce the body, resulting on feel
pain. After that, rice-flour paste are used to cool the tattooed areas. The picture
show the tool that they use to make a pantang.
figure 5 special tools to make pantang
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