Tattooing in the Marquesas

Tattooing in the Marquesas
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 82
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ISBN-10 : 9780486466125
ISBN-13 : 0486466124
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Book Synopsis Tattooing in the Marquesas by : Willowdean Chatterson Handy

Download or read book Tattooing in the Marquesas written by Willowdean Chatterson Handy and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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