Tattooing, Samoa

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Title

Tattooing, Samoa

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Two unknown men are sitting on a mat, on a porch, outside a weatherboard house with an open door. In between the two of them there is another man (who is being tattooed by the man on the left). The man on the right is holding the skin taut for the tattooist.

Format

Image

Date created

1890-1910

Creator

Thomas Andrew

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/211520

Related subjects

Tattoos / Indigenous peoples / Manners & customs / Houses / Doors & doorways / Porches / Rites & ceremonies / silver / albumen / printing-out paper / albumen prints / black-and-white prints / black-and-white photography / printing-out / Sāmoan / tattooing / Sāmoa

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