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na toa marquesan
The hardest one so far because of the tattoo motifs that cover the body, based on tattoo patterns recorded by Kramer and others in the early 1900s. Most often the old photos show a simple unmarked malo (loincloth). The weapon is the well-known marquesan club. Also distinctive is the two-top-knot shaved head, almost comical to western eyes..

Marquesan Tattoos
Showing off our Marquesan tattoos from French Polynesia. www.polynesia.com.

Tatuagem Polinésia 2, Marquesan Tattoo Video by Pablo Dellic
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Marquesan tattooing (rear), by Von de Steinen, in Alfred Gell (1999), "The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams."
Marquesan tattooing (rear), by Von de Steinen. From Alfred Gell (1999), "Strathernograms, or the Semiotics of Mixed Metaphors," in The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams. London: Athlone..

"Style and Culture", page 185
Fig. 8.11/6. Langsdorff's 1813 engraving of young warrior with eye and face designs. Source: Langsdorff 1813-14. Reproduced in Gell (1998:185), "Style and Culture", Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory . see also: Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory.

Badora's Leg Tattoos. Figures 8.10/1-2, page 181
Figure 8.10/1. Sitting etua hypostasized mata hoata. Badora's leg tattoos: (a) mata hoata ; (b) double kake ; (c) mata hoata ; (d) kautupa ; (e) Etua ; (f) mata hoata ; (g) double kake ; (h) poriri. Source : Von den Steinen, i. 132, illus. 77 Reproduced in Gell (1998:181), "Style and Culture", Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. see also: Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory.

Pages 182-183
Alfred Gell (1998:182-83), Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. Fig. 8.11/1 Far left: From double mata hoata to ipu. Source: Von den Steinen, i. 129, illus. 74. Fig. 8.11/2, left. Tapa mask with ipu 'eyes'. Source: Von den Steinen, i. 173, illus. 131. Fig. 8.11/3. 'Hand face' design 1. Source: Von den Steinen, i. 177, illus 136/5. Fig. 8.11/4. 'Hand face' design 2: each eye can also be read as a face, one single etua, or as one etua containing another. Source: Von den Steinen, i. 177, illus 136/6. see also: Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory.

Chiefess's girdle with type 3 'kake' Figure 8.9-4, page 178
FIG. 8.9/4. The chiefess's girdle with type III kake . See Section 8.11 below for face motifs. Source: Willowdean Handy, plate xv. Reproduced in Gell (1998:178), "Style and Culture", Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. see also: Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory.

Figures 8.11/3-4 Hand face design
Fig. 8.11/3. 'Hand face' design 1. Source: Von den Steinen, i. 177, illus 136/5. Fig. 8.11/4. 'Hand face' design 2: each eye can also be read as a face, one single etua, or as one etua containing another. Source: Von den Steinen, i. 177, illus 136/6. Reproduced in Gell (1998:182-83), "Style and Culture", Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. see also: Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory.

Figures 8.10/3-4, page 181
FIG. 8.10/4. From mata hoata to the Vau rock motif by the addition of spirals. Source : Von den Steinen, i. 169, illus. 125 FIG. 8.10/3. The mata hoata tattoo indicated tends evidently toward the etua motif. Source : Von den Steinen, i. 104, illus. 54 Reproduced in Gell (1998:182-83), "Style and Culture", Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory. see also: Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory.

Marquesan design extended
This is still in development, willeventualy be a 3/4 sleeve. Now contains new motifs. Aniata - poepoe -.

Joy Divison 1 [2] 3 - Isolation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bRCl0RCxx8.

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External Material

It is very common to have Chinese character tattoo.

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