Description
| Product ID: | 9780486466125 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Tattooing in the Marquesas |
| Authors: | Author: Willowdean Chatterson Handy |
| Page Count: | 80 |
| Subjects: | Drawing and drawings, Drawing & drawings, Body art and tattoos, Photographs: collections, Body art & tattooing, Photographs: collections, French Polynesia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Publisher Name: | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-08-29 |
