Tattooing in the Marquesas

Definitive source on intricate tattoos of Polynesia's Marquesas Islands offers a rare glimpse of a vanished art. Its 38 plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete and intimate record. 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.

• | Author: Willowdean Chatterson Handy
• | Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• | Publication Date: Aug 29, 2008
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780486466125
• | ISBN-10: 0486466124