Tattooing
From LoveToKnow 1911
TATTOOING (Tahitian, tatu, from ta, mark), the practice of decorating the skin, by cutting or puncturing, with various patterns into which a colouring matter is introduced.
Tattooing
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Tattooing has been practiced worldwide. The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, traditionally wore facial tattoos. Today one can find Berbers of Tamazgha and Maori of New Zealand with facial tattoos.
Evidence of tattooing was also found in ancient Egyptian excavations. In 1891 remains of a priestess of the goddess of hathor were found dating from 2160 BC. The tattoos depicted lines, dots, dashes, and geometric patterns all over her body.
A form of body art, scarification is related to tattooing, though it introduces no pigments.
A relatively wide range of art was, we believe, created (including, body art, tattooing, painting, sculpture, wood carving, and textile art) though most materials used by artists and craftsmen were perishable.
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Tattooing, piercing, branding, scarification, inplanting, and mehndi are forms of body art, each with contemporary manifestations, most with long traditions. There are numerous serious health concerns associated with many forms of body art.
If the clothes with the camp number were removed from the corpse, one could no longer establish what the number of the deceased had been."* Tattooing was done by puncturing the skin on the left forearm with individual needles and rubbing indelible ...
This apparent absence of internal critical writing may be because many lowbrow artists began their careers in fields not normally considered fine art, such as illustration, tattooing and comic books.
 See also: Sculpture, Movement, School, Painting, Unity
  
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