Kobe Bryant's sister Sharia Washington honors him and his daughter Gianna with new tribute tattoo (Photo)

Kobe Bryant's sister, Sharia Washington has gotten a new tribute tattoo to honour the late NBA legend and his daughter, Gianna.

The father, 41, and daughter, 13 died along with seven others in a devastating helicopter crash on January 26th.

On Wednesday night, Sharia took to her Instagram page to reveal her tribute tattoo in honour of Kobe and Gianna. The tribute tattoo has a black Mamba snake around the numbers, 2 and 24, which were Gianna and Kobe's basketball jersey numbers.

Sharia captioned the snap: 'Thank you @peterbarriostattoo,' followed by prayer hands, a snake and a heart emoji.