Tattooing the World : : Pacific Designs in Print and Skin / / Juniper Ellis.
In the 1830s an Irishman named James F. O'Connell acquired a full-body tattoo while living as a castaway in the Pacific. The tattoo featured traditional patterns that, to native Pohnpeians, defined O'Connell's life; they made him wholly human. Yet upon traveling to New York, these mar...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 24 illus. |
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