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This definitive survey offers rare glimpses of a dying art. Banned for decades by colonial authorities, the ancient tattoo rituals were vanishing at the time of this 1921 survey. Thirty-eight plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete, intimate, and authentic account of a sophisticated art.

Tattooing in the Marquesas

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    A Paperback by Willowdean Chatterson Handy

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      Publisher Dover Publications
      Published 29 August 2008
      ISBN-13 9780486466125
      978-0486466125
      ISBN-10 0486466124
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      Body art and tattoos

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      Book Synopsis

      This definitive survey offers rare glimpses of a dying art. Banned for decades by colonial authorities, the ancient tattoo rituals were vanishing at the time of this 1921 survey. Thirty-eight plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete, intimate, and authentic account of a sophisticated art.

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