Tattooing in the Marquesas
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0486466124
ISBN-13
9780486466125
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Imprint
Dover Publications Inc.
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 29th, 2008
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
138 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.50 x 0.40 cms
Product Classification:
Drawing & drawingsBody art & tattooingPhotographs: collections
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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.
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