Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin by Juniper Ellis

Author:Juniper Ellis [Ellis, Juniper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthropology, Art, Australia, Body Art & Tattooing, Cultural & Social, History, Literary Criticism, Oceania, Social Science
ISBN: 9780231513104
Google: T1pz3dcdSgEC
Amazon: 0231513100
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 15. Illustration by Kahi of Hanaupe, Hiva Oa. A Marquesan man’s tattoo. Steinen also identifies the artist as a tattoo-master. Reprinted from Karl von den Steinen, Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst (Berlin: D. Reimer, 1925), 1:103.

FIGURE 16. Illustration by Kahi of Hanaupe, Hiva Oa. A Marquesan woman’s tattoo. Reprinted from Karl von den Steinen, Die Marquesaner und ihre Kunst (Berlin: D. Reimer, 1925), 1:103.

In other words, this temporal strategy recalls the marked difference that Melville and other writers sought—and created in their accounts. Both untattooed and tattooed visitors help create the concept of culture through their depictions of the Marquesan patterns. Their purposes and methods diverge, of course, depending upon whether the designs adorn the observer’s skin.

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