 | Anthropology - 1877 - 608 pages
...made up of fine dots or pricks, but of a series of short lines or cuts.* The colour is an indigo-blue. The women are tattooed with rings round the eyes and...patches on the body, as in Fijian women or Samoan men. Painting. — The male natives occasionally had their chests and faces reddened with a burnt red clay.... | |
 | Anthropology - 1877 - 632 pages
...made up of fine dots or pricks, but of a series of short lines or cuts.* The colour is an indigo-blue. The women are tattooed with rings round the eyes and...patches on the body, as in Fijian women or Samoan men. Painting. — The male natives occasionally had their chests and faces reddened with a burnt red clay.... | |
 | Anthropology - 1877 - 606 pages
...made up of fine dots or pricks, but of a series of short lines or cuts.* The colour is an indigo-blue. The women are tattooed with rings round the eyes and...so close to one another as to form coloured patches ou the body, as in Fijian women or Samoan men. Painting. — The male natives occasionally had their... | |
 | Anne Walbank Buckland - Anthropology - 1891 - 324 pages
...meeting in the middle, and these marks appear to be assumed only at adult age, but "the women are all tattooed, with rings round the eyes and all over the...part of the front of the body, the lines crossing each other so as to form a series of lozenge-shaped spaces." This tattooing is done with short cuts,... | |
 | James George Frazer - Endogamy and exogamy - 1910 - 402 pages
...Admiralty Islands tattooing is almost entirely confined to the women, with whom it is universal. They " are tattooed with rings round the eyes and all over...so as to form a series of lozenge-shaped spaces." 4 Amongst the AW Howitt, Native Tribes of South- Guinea," Journal oj the Anthropological East Australia,... | |
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... males, however, were tattooed. One, a small boy, had a simple ring-mark round one eye. The other, an adult, had rings round both eyes. These were, however, exceptional cases. The tattooing is not made up of fine dots or pricks, but of a series of... 