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"As Russia's leading expert on tattoo iconography, Mr. Arkady Bronnikov can tell the prisoner's story from looking at the designs on his body. The huge spider in a web that is drawn on his skull reveals, in prison tattoo code, that he is a drug addict. Also, he is a repeat offender: The onion domes of a Russian church fan across his shoulder ...
Totenkopf (German: [ˈtoːtn̩ˌkɔpf], i.e. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull. The word is often used to denote a figurative, graphic or sculptural symbol, common in Western culture, consisting of the representation of a human skull – usually frontal, more rarely in profile with or without the mandible .
Up until World War II, any tattoo could denote a professional criminal, the only exception being tattoos on sailors. [ 1 ] Under the Gulag system of the Soviet era, laws that were implemented in mid-1940 allowed short prison sentences to be given to those convicted of petty theft, hooliganism, or labor discipline infractions.
Lampi paid $1,550 and traded five human skulls for Lux, the stillborn baby boy that was stolen from an Arkansas mortuary, the indictment says. ... The tattoo artist also traded other human remains ...
Genest was born in LaSalle, Quebec, and grew up in Châteauguay. [2] At 15, [3] [4] Genest was told he had a brain tumor. After more examinations and tests, six months later, [5] [4] he had a laser procedure, claiming he was the second North American to survive the laser treatment.
Skull symbolism is the attachment of symbolic meaning to the human skull. The most common symbolic use of the skull is as a representation of death . Humans can often recognize the buried fragments of an only partially revealed cranium even when other bones may look like shards of stone.