Tattooing in the Marquesas

Handy, Willowdean Chatterson

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.

EAN

9780486466125

Publisher

Dover Publications Inc.

Published

29 August 2008

Pages

80