Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Tattoo design: tracing of a genital tattoo taken from the body of Rangi-Tea-Pakura, a Maori woman of rank. Drawing by Dr. Shortland.
Tattoo design: tracing of a genital tattoo taken from the body of Rangi-Tea-Pakura, a Maori woman of rank. Drawing by Dr. Shortland.
Wellcome Collection

Tattoo design: tracing of a genital tattoo taken from the body of Rangi-Tea-Pakura, a Maori woman of rank. Drawing by Dr. Shortland.

Shortland

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Tattooing (whakairo) on the body of a Maori woman of rank Rangi-Tea-Pakura, died about 1870 - very old.

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