Tattooing in the Marquesas
Willowdean Chatterson Handy
Barcode 9780486466125
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Release Date: 29/08/2008
Genre: Entertainment & The Arts
Sub-Genre: Art & Photography
Label: Dover Publications Inc.
Language: English
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Pages: 80
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.