15 collocations for tattooed

The old French navigator d'Urville found in the Maori tattooing an analogy to European heraldry, with this difference: that whereas the coat-of-arms attests the merits of ancestors, the Maori moko illustrates the merits of the persons decorated with it.

This practice of tattooing the bodyor marking it with colouring matter introduced into the skin by means of punctures or incisionsis rarely exhibited by the men, and in them is usually confined to a few blue lines or stars upon the right breast; in some instances, however, the markings consisted of a double series of large stars and dots stretching from the shoulder toward the pit of the stomach.

Among the Papuans of New Guinea tattooing the chest of females denotes that they are married.

Those known show conclusively that in the matter of tattooing the Filipinos are not differentiated from the islanders of the Pacific; they form, moreover, an important link in the chain of knowledge which demonstrates the genetic homogeneity of the inhabitants.

The women increase their natural ugliness, by dyeing their hair and nails reddish brown with henna, and by tattooing their hands and arms.

Astute vendors occasionally tried the more merciful plan of tattooing "plain" heads after death in ordinary course of battle.

In his youth he had been a sailor on the lake, when some artist of the needle had tattooed a British jack on the back of his left handa thing he covered, of shame now, when he thought of it.

e him, reaching from shoulder to shoulder, was tattooed the likeness of a great human eye!

" Shortly after 1808 "the government made tattooing a penal offence.

"DECORATION" AT THE AGE OF PUBERTY We come now to the principal argument of Westermarckthe alleged fact that in all parts of the world the desire for self-decoration is strongest at the beginning of the age of puberty, the customs of ornamenting, painting, mutilating, and tattooing the person being practised most zealously at that period.

The same non-esthetic motives for tattooing prevail in South and Central America.

It seems that he has an old Pott's fracture of the left ankle, a linear, longitudinal scar on each kneeorigin not stated, but easily guessed atand that he has tattooed on his chest in vermilion a very finely and distinctly executed representation of the symbolical Eye of Osirisor Horus or Ra, as the different authorities have it.

They painted their bodies and tattooed their skins, by pricking figures on the flesh and rubbing in some staining juice when the blood appeared.

To us the recent period of hostilities had been "The War," the only war in which we had ever been privileged to fight; but to him it was just one of the numberless affrays of an adventurous life, and, judging by the worn condition of his ears and the veteran scars that tattooed his tail, some of the previous ones had had their share of frightfulness.

These Indians frequently tattooed temples, forehead, or cheeks of sufferers from headache or toothache, in the belief that this would expel the demons who cause the pain.

15 collocations for  tattooed