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To: Lane3 who wrote (39464)	4/14/2004 6:48:27 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 793926

It seems they dye both their faces and hands. The custom of dyeing the hands of men and women is common throughout the Middle East and adjacent territories. It had its origin at least several thousand years before the dawn of the Christian Era. While the use of the pigment has been mainly concerned with personal embellishment, not infrequently the dye has been employed as a magical protection against the Evil Eye. From Portraits of War (Detroit Free Press) --Some women and children are in the houses. They sit stoically. Many of the women have tattoos on their faces, hands and arms. -- Standing outside her home...her weathered face adorned with the green tattoos of rural Iraq... (This one is really poetic) ---the old women with henna tattoo-ed faces and a lifetime of tears in their eyes.. (Electronic Iraq-- Iraq Diaries) Do NOT however, try to find pictures. I typed in: pictures tattoos Iraq women-- and I am going to be getting nasty email things for days.

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