Book
Tattooing in the Marquesas
Bernice P. Bishop Museum • Honolulu • Published In 1922 • Pages: 26 , 38 plates
By: Handy, Willowdean C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author served as volunteer associate with the Marquesas party of the Bayard Dominick Expedition of 1920-21. This study is based upon her collection of tattooing designs found among the natives while with the expedition and supplemented by information gleaned from existing literary sources. The social significance of tattooing, the method of execution, the classification of typical designs, and the stylistic differences between the southeastern and northwestern island groups are discussed in detail.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Body alterations
- Decorative art
- Cultural participation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Marquesas
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee ; 1959: John Beierle; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1920-1921
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1920-1921
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, South Pacific
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Willowdean Chatterson Handy
- Bayard Dominick expedition. Publication no. 3
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 26)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 23015100
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tattooing--French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands
- Ethnology--French Polynesia--Marquesas Islands
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)--Social life and customs