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  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing
  • Ethiopia: a Gurage woman tattooing another on the wrist. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.
  • Puhoro: tracing of the chisel cuts used in a Maori design of tattooing on the thigh. Watercolour by H.G. Robley.
  • Ear piercing, tattooing, acupuncture, razors, needles and toothbrushes representing a warning about the ways in which you can catch AIDS by the British Deaf Association. Colour lithograph.
  • Monday, May 4th, and until further notice : dive for life ... The Irish Giant, Captain Murphy, standing nearly 8ft. high, Lobster Claw Lady ... tattooing ... / Wonderland, Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's station).
  • Monday, May 4th, and until further notice : dive for life ... The Irish Giant, Captain Murphy, standing nearly 8ft. high, Lobster Claw Lady ... tattooing ... / Wonderland, Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's station).
  • Tattoing needles, bronze mounted in bone
  • Tattooed arms
  • Tattooed skin
  • Tattoos on the chest
  • Tattoos on the body
  • Tattoos on the body
  • Six arms showing different designs of tattoo, and two smaller views of tattoos. Process print, 1903.
  • Pustules on the site of a tattoo
  • Skin inflamation on the site of a tattoo
  • A tattoos on a piece of human skin
  • Tattoo design: tracing of a genital tattoo taken from the body of Rangi-Tea-Pakura, a Maori woman of rank. Drawing by Dr. Shortland.
  • Signs of syphilis on the site of a tattoo
  • Signs of syphilis on the site of a tattoo
  • Signs of syphilis on the site of a tattoo
  • Signs of syphilis on the site of a tattoo
  • A tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a fan
  • Japan: a man with elaborate tattoos on his body. Coloured photograph.
  • Japan: two men (bettoes or grooms) with elaborate tattoos. Coloured photograph.
  • A tattoo on a piece of human skin showing a female face