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Title:
Tattoo traditions of Native North America : ancient and contemporary expressions of identity / Lars Krutak.
Author:
Krutak, Lars F., author.
Publication Information:
Arnhem : Stichting LM Publishers, [2014]
Call Number:
E98 .T2 K78 2014
ISBN:
9789491394096
Physical Description:
255 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
General Note:
"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. This 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" - Page 4 of cover.
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