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Dover Tattooing in the Marquesas

Dover Publications tattoo books roundup

Dover Publications, which specializes in republishing out-of-print and often copyright free books on art and culture, has a number of inexpensive, richly illustrated historical texts on Polynesian tattoo.
Maori Tattooing, by author H.G. Robley, is a reprint of his 1896 text on the ethnography of moko, the tattoo art of New Zealand’s Maori people. Besides [...]