Displaying 1 of 1 2008 Format: Book Author: Handy, Willowdean C. Title: Tattooing in the Marquesas / Willowdean Chatterson Handy. Edition: Dover ed. Publisher, Date: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2008. Description: 32 pages, 38 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: "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."--Publisher description. Subjects: Ethnology -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands. Tattooing -- French Polynesia -- Marquesas Islands. Notes: Originally published: Honolulu, Hawaii : Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1922, in series: Bernice P. Bishop museum. Bulletin I. Includes bibliographical references (page 26). Web Site: Publisher description LCCN: 2008005296 ISBN: 0486466124 9780486466125 Other Number: 191245717 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 227909 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 391.650996 Handy Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
