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The earliest appearance of tattoos on women during this period were in the circus in the late 19th century. These " Tattooed Ladies " were covered – with the exception of their faces, hands, necks, and other readily visible areas – with various images inked into their skin.
Sailor tattoo motifs had already solidified by the early 19th century, with anchors, ships, and other nautical symbols being the most common images tattooed on American seafarers, followed by patriotic symbols such as flags, eagles, and stars; symbols of love; and religious symbols. [5]: 532–3
Photograph of tattooed lady Lillian Marco from c. 1885-1892. She appeared in circuses and dime museums in the late 19th century, including the World's Museum in Boston. [5]
Albanian tattoo patterns: 19th century (top), early 20th century (bottom). They are symbols of the Sun and the Moon ; the cross (also swastika in some tattoos) is the Albanian traditional way to represent the deified Fire – Zjarri, evidently also called with the theonym Enji. [1]
Moko facial tattoos were traditional in Māori culture until about the mid-19th century, when their use began to disappear. There has been something of a revival from the late 20th century. In pre-European Māori culture, they denoted high social status. Generally only men had full facial moko. High-ranked women often had moko on their lips and ...
Drawing of a Bosnian tattooed woman from the late 19th century. Sicanje or bocanje was a tattoo custom practiced mostly among Roman Catholic Croat teenage girls and boys of the central regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the Dalmatia region of Croatia.
Tom Riley (born 1870) was a prominent English tattoo artist in the late 19th century and early 20th century, nicknamed "Professor". [1] Riley's work, alongside rivals Alfred South and Sutherland MacDonald, was part of establishing an English style of tattooing. [2]
During the 20th century in the Soviet Union, Russian criminal and prison communities maintained a culture of using tattoos to indicate members' criminal career and ranking. Specifically among those imprisoned under the Gulag system of the Soviet era, the tattoos served to differentiate a criminal leader or thief in law from a political prisoner ...