25 Cactus Flower Tattoo Ideas For Your Beautiful but Prickly Soul. By Sarah Siegel. Updated on Aug 6, 2017 at 6:35 PM. Cacti have been appearing everywhere lately, and we aren't complaining.

Akimel O'odham (Pima) tattooing kit from Arizona collected by Frank Russell, ca. 1900. Tattoos were made using cactus spines tied together with cotton. Creosote and mesquite charcoal were rubbed into ...

An Ancient Way to Hand-Poke Tattoos. The tool consists of a wooden skunkbush sumac handle that is bound at the end with split yucca leaves. These leaves hold two parallel cactus spines, with ...

The tattoo tool has two prickly pear cactus spines attached to it. (Image credit: Bob Hubner/WSU) Gillreath-Brown happened upon the 3.9-inch-long (9.9 centimeters) tool while taking an inventory ...

This was made of four cactus spines and the handle was made from reed. The newly discovered tool dates to between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. Tattooing is an artform found in cultures worldwide.

Get Inked, Not Pricked: 25 Cactus Tattoos We're Loving Right Now. By Nile Cappello. Updated on Sep 13, ... Check out some cute-as-a-cactus-button inspiration from some of our favorite cacti ...