The Mentawai Islands are a chain of about seventy islands and islets approximately 150 kilometers (93 miles) off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. Take a trip into the wild with an adventure to the Mentawai islands. Be surrounded…
The last Mentawai tattoo bearers
The indigenous Mentawai people populate the islands of Siberut, Sipora, North Pagai and South Pagai. Today, only Siberut still has a fairly large number of tattooed islanders, though estimated at less than 100. On the other three islands, only one…