Tribal sun design falls under the specialized category of tribal tattoo. The use of sun as a symbol is very old. You can even find the symbol of sun on the pre-historic caves. In past, there are certain tribes who consider sun as a god and they believe that engraving the sketch of sun on their body will protect them from evil forces.
Today there are many persons who like the symbol of sun pierced on to their body. They have their own reasons. Most of the ancestral sun sketches are devoid of any colors. Ancestral sun is mostly drawn in black ink. But color sketches are also not rare. There are few masterpiece of colored sun designs.