This collection of colorable tattoos — all adapted from patterns created during the first part of the 20th century — lets colorists of all ages apply their own eye-catching hues to thirty pages of intriguing images. Includes frightful figures, powerful beasts, good luck symbols, pretty girls, and pierced hearts.

This classic of ethnography describes Maori tattooing (moko), which communicates the bearer's genealogy, tribal affiliation, and spirituality. This definitive study relates how moko first became known to Europeans and discusses the distinctions between men and women's moko, patterns and designs, and moko in legend and song. Features 180 black-and-w[Read More]

This unique collection spotlights 230 authentic tattoo designs — each shown in full color and black and white. Based on actual tattoos of the 1920s to the 1960s, the striking images depict pierced hearts, shamrocks, pretty girls, skulls and crossbones, exotic ladies, crossed swords, colorful birds, pirates, butterflies, and other spectacular moti[Read More]