Mentawai tribe: Tattoos – Tribal Wives – BBC

Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 10:57 pm

Doctor Andrea Wraith joins the Mentawai tribe in Indonesia to learn more about bodily rituals such as tattoos and teeth sharpening, and is baffled by the high tolerance the tribe women seem to have for pain. Interesting short video from BBC show Tribal Wives. Part of a series. Six women give up their everyday lives and spend a month living with some of the world's most remote tribes, immersing themselves fully into their new culture. Each woman must work, eat and sleep exactly as the other tribal women.