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It is quite common in Fiji and Sa moa for a man to bear upon his art or body a certificate of his birth which is practically indelible. Tattooing is carried on in these islands to an abs urd extent, and it is the practice to tattoo on the hand of a mother the date of her children's births. Some times, also, an enthusiastic father will tattoo the date of the birth on the child itself, and no matter how long it lives the certificate will remain easily deciderable. In some adjoining islands every child is tattooed almost from head to foot on its completing its twelfth year. The result is very remarkable, especially if the child is growing rapid ly, so that the spaces between the tats too marks increase in size year by year. I remember one man who joined our crew when we were short handed, who has every available space on his anatomy tattooed year af ter year, until he appeared to be nothing but a walking collection of grotesque signs and symbols. InJdapan tattooing is now prohibited by law, but it is still practices by supersti tious subjects of the Mikado very free ly. —St. Louis Globe- Democrat,
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The Weekly Union Times
Union, South Carolina, US
Fri, Jul 27, 1894
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