Morocco's tribeswomen see facial tattoo tradition fade

"When I was six, they told me tattoos were pretty adornments," recalled the 67-year-old from Imilchil village of the once-common practice among women in North Africa's Amazigh groups. Long referred to as Berbers, many tribespeople from the area prefer to be called Amazigh, or Imazighen, which means "free people". Today, like in many of the Indigenous cultures across the world where facial tattoos were long prevalent, the practice has largely faded. Many attribute the near-disappearance of facial...