Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1919 — TATTOOING ANCIENT CUSTOM. [ARTICLE]

TATTOOING ANCIENT CUSTOM.

The antiquity of tattooing is evidenced , by Its almost universal employment among primitive peoples. In New Guinea the young women are ; tattooed all over their bodies, their faces being after marriage. In the Solomon islands a girl Is not eligible for marriage unless she has been tattooed. The girls of Borneo are thus, adorned from waist to. knees in most elaborate fashion; 1 likewise their hands, feet and ankles. • . In Burmah, under the last king, every male Was required by royal edict to be tattooed from waist to knees; and it was customary for the gtrlsjp have their tongues tattooed with charms to attract the men.' '