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  • A man with a tattoo puts his arms around a woman while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • Tattoos on the chest
  • Tattoos on the body
  • Tattoos on the body
  • A tattoos on a piece of human skin
  • Japan: a man with elaborate tattoos on his body. Coloured photograph.
  • Japan: two men (bettoes or grooms) with elaborate tattoos. Coloured photograph.
  • A naked lady covered in floral tattoos standing in an open landscape. Etching.
  • Myanmar (Burma): a young man with elaborate tattoos on his waist and thighs. Photograph.
  • Tattoos on a piece of human skin showing a flower and a selection of people
  • Two tattoos on a piece of human skin showing a seated nude female and a standing male
  • An actor as ruffian Tsuribune no Sabu, full face, revealing his tattoos. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • A selection of tattoos on a piece of human skin showing a nude female, a pot of flowers and a gentlemen
  • Captain Costentenus, a man with many tattooes on his body. Colour lithograph.
  • Captain Costentenus, a man with tattooes all over his body. Colour line block.
  • A Maori man with tattoos on his face, encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by Michel, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • Tattooed arms
  • Tattooed skin
  • 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
  • No-tin, a chief of the Ojibwa tribe, with facial tattoes and wearing a feather headdress. Coloured lithograph by Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment after C. B. King, 1842.
  • Ma-hos-kah (White Cloud), a chief of the Iowa tribe, with facial tattooes and a bear's claw necklace. Coloured lithograph by Lehman & Duval after C. B. King, 1837.
  • Sierra Leone: a tattooed man of the Kissi people collecting money. Photograph, 19--.
  • Actor Kataoka Nizaemon as the popular hero Umeno Ichirōbei, revealing his tattooed shoulder. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1859.
  • New Guinea: five tattooed girls of the Koita people, Waima village. Photograph, 19--, after a photograph by H.M. Dauncey.
  • Puhoro: tracing of the chisel cuts used in a Maori design of tattooing on the thigh. Watercolour by H.G. Robley.