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Tag Archives: Tattoos
1838: Matua Tawai
Alexandre Pierre Marie Dumoutier: plaster cast of Matua Tawai, a New Zealander of Ikanamawi (1838) Moulage sur nature became a powerful freezing and fixation tool used to document a natural and even human hic et nunc status. In the great … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Alexandre Pierre Marie Dumoutier, Anthropology, Colonialism, France, Matua Tawai, New Zealand, Tattoos
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1585: A Young Daughter of the Picts
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: A Young Daughter of the Picts (ca. 1585) An engraving based on this miniature appeared in the section on Picts and ancient Britons in Thomas Hariot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land … Continue reading
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2015: Ink
Jessica Harrison paints tattoos on found ceramic figures: Painted Lady (14), 2015 See more here.
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Tagged 21st Century, Art, Ceramics, Jessica Harrison, Tattoos, Women
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