Tattoo Traditions of Native North America
Subtitle: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity
Publisher: University of Washington Press; LM Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9789491394096
Subjects: Tattooing; Indian art, north america; Indians of north america, social life and customs
Description: For thousands of years astonishingly rich and diverse forms of tattooing have been produced by the Indigenous peoples of North America. Long neglected by anthropologists and art historians, tattooing was a time-honoured traditional practice that expressed the patterns of tribal social organization and religion, while also channelling worlds inhabited by deities, spirits, and the ancestors.0This book explores the many facets of indelible Indigenous body marking across every cultural region of North America. As the first book on the subject, it breaks new ground on one of the least-known mediums of Amerindian expressive culture that nearly disappeared from view in the twentieth century, until it was reborn in recent decades.0.