Dorothy
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Dorothy
@KATrustyFriend
Mother, artist, welder, philosopher.


And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. - Genesis 2:7




Queen Vaekehu's Tattooed Leg. Culture: Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, circa 1823-1901. Medium: Photograph/engraving reproduction; black-and-white print. Source: From Frederick O'Brien's Atolls of the Sun, 1922. This photograph shows the tattooed leg of Queen Vaekehu (1823-1901), the last queen of the Marquesas archipelago. After converting to Catholicism in 1853, Vaekehu chose a path of reconciliation with the French colonial administration and spent the twilight of her life in the mission compound. In the Marquesas, the tradition of tattooing is known as patutiki--a concept meaning to imprint a figure or image, derived from the words patu (to strike) and tiki (figure/image). According to this tradition, every motif on the skin was considered a fragment originating from the body of the mythological first human. (As the tattooing process progressed, it was believed that the individual's own skin integrated with the mythological ancestor's body, becoming a part of it.) When German explorer Georg Forster visited the region, he described the people as appearing almost black, with their bodies covered in spots, spirals, bars, checkers, and stripes. O'Brien's book was published right in the middle of this tradition's decline. In fact, under the influence of the French colonial administration, tattooing had been outlawed since the late 19th century, and missionaries in Polynesia condemned the art form as a symbol of pagan beliefs. The art of tattooing largely faded away during the first half of the 20th century. It didn't see a powerful resurgence in French Polynesia until the 1990s, when it reemerged as part of a quest for cultural identity. If you're interested, I'd recommend this book: antinoe.fr/en-en/products…


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