 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 504 trang
...father to son, as trophies of inestimable value. The custom of tattooing the body, they have in ommon with the rest of the natives of the South Sea Islands...at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands, that they tatlow the face. There is also this difference between the two last, that in the former it is done... | |
 | William Bullock - 1813 - 250 trang
...Voyage, votviii. p. 135, observes, " That the Sandwich Islanders have the custom of tattowing the body in common with the rest of the natives of the South Sea Islands. The arms and hands of the women are also very neatly marked, and they have a singular custom among... | |
 | James Cook - 1821 - 486 trang
...from father to son, as trophies of inestimable value. The custom of tattowing the body, they have iit common with the rest of the natives of the South Sea...at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands that they tattotv the face. There is also this difference between the two last, that, in the former, it is done... | |
 | Edinburgh gazetteer - 1822 - 770 trang
...care, and handed down from father to son, as trophies of inestimable value. The custom of tattooing the body they have in common with the rest of the...at New Zealand and the Sandwich islands that they tattoo the face. There is also this difference between the two last, that in the former it is done... | |
 | 1822 - 782 trang
...care, and handed down from father to son, as trophies of inestimable value. The custom of tattooing the body they have in common with the rest of the...at New Zealand and the Sandwich islands that they tattoo the face. There is also this difference between the two last, that in the former it is done... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 trang
...Friendly isles, in suffering, almost universally, their beards to grow." u The custom of tattooing the body they have in common with the rest of the...at New Zealand and the Sandwich islands that they tattoo the face. The hands and arms of the women are very neatly marked ; and they have a singular... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 548 trang
...care, and handed down from father to son, as trophies of inestimable value. The custom of tallowing the body, they have in common with the rest of the...at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands, that they tattuw the face. There is also this difference between the two last, that in the former it is done... | |
 | General history - 1824 - 554 trang
...to son, as trophies of inestimable value. The custom of tallowing the body, they have in common wild the rest of the natives of the South Sea islands ;...at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands, that they tattom the face. There is also this difference between the two last, that in the former it is done... | |
 | 1856 - 184 trang
...inch broad, made of wood, stone, or ivory finely polished. The custom of tattooing the body they had in common with the rest of the natives of the South Sea Islands, but it was only there that Morris found the face also tattooed. In New-Zealand, as Davis informed him, they... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 726 trang
...Sandwich Islands are often, but not always, punctured (vi. 214). Captain King says (Cook, vii. 125), " It is only at New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands that they tattoo the face." l6lO. OBSERVATIONS ON THE CROCODILES OF MADAGASCAR. See also gee Ellis, History of... | |
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Islands that they tattow the face. There is also this difference between the two last, that, in the former, it is done in elegant spiral volutes, and in the latter, in straight lines, crossing each other at right angles. The hands and arms of the women... 
