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Tattoo History - Female Tattoos
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12 Aug '03 -
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Huh? Wat staat u hier toch te trappelen voor de deur? Ooohhjaaah! Sorry. U komt hier natuurlijk voor Dreadloki en Haida's Dinsdag Tatoeage-dag! Zeg dat dan! Dan vertel ik u met liefde wat het onderwerp voor vandaag is, namelijk: Female Tattoos! (Fijn eh?)
History
Vandaag, minder gelul en meer visueel vertier. Want daar gaat het
per slot van rekening om bij de vrouwelijke tatoeages, nietwaar?
Olive Oatman was part of the nine member Royce
Oatman family who left the relative safety of a westbound wagontrain in
1851 and headed out alone on the Gila Trail. The Gila Trail was one of
the many routes used by settlers and gold-hungry miners to get to the
west. Westerly routes from Santa Fe and El Paso joined in Apache
country to form the Gila Trail. Crossing the desert to the southwestern
frontier, it took a course that was determined by sources of water and
passages through the mountains. Beginning in the 1840s soldiers,
immigrants, miners, mail carriers, freighters and outlaws all traveled
this trail. In time, trains, automobiles and airplanes followed their
lead. West of Gila Bend, Arizona their wagon was attacked by Yavapai
Indians. All were killed except for one son who escaped and two sisters
who were captured. After a year the girls were traded to the Mohave
Indian tribe. The Mohave's of the lower Colorado River were unique in
many ways. They were one of the few tribes of this area who relied on
farming and were very warlike. As with most North American Indians,
they were fond of personal adornment. Two of their favorites were
tattooing and body painting. Men and women would tattoo their chins and
sometimes their foreheads. Both sexes would also paint striking designs
on their faces, hair and body. There was no special guild of tattooists
and most tattooing was done on people between the ages of 20 and 30.
Part of the Mohave belief is that any man or woman without a tattoo on
the face would be refused entrance to Sil¹aid, the land of the dead.
Their belief was so strong that black paint would be rubbed on the
tattoo marks of the dead so they were more visible on judgment day.
Because of this belief, many old folks who had not been tattooed in
their youth were tattooed on their deathbeds. The younger of the
sisters died, but Olive survived until she was ransomed in 1856 by the
United States Government at Ft. Yuma. The Oatman massacre and the
telling of the story thereafter, did little to stem the tide of
westbound immigrants, and to this day, the place where the Oatman¹s
wagon was attacked is known as Oatman Flats. Photos shortly after her
ransom showed her in a cabinet style photo wearing a black dress with
her hair pulled back and Mohave style tattooing on her chin; five
vertical lines, with two triangles set at right angles to the two outer
lines. Published accounts of Olive¹s capture and torture were quickly
publicized, and for a while, she displayed her tattooing on a cross
country lecture tour.
Throughout tattoo history attractions have used
fanciful tales to make their shows more interesting. Dreaming up
stories about being captured by "Red Indians" and forcibly tattooed was
very common. Although she objected, even the
famous
worked in Australia behind a painted banner which showed her being
tattooed against her will. Years after she retired, Betty would become
upset when talking about it. Her case was probably the exception to the
rule, because it seems that many attractions used these tales to add to
their box office. The Olive Oatman story is one of the few along these
lines that can be substantiated by hard fact.
Chin designs with the Mohaves were chosen by the
tattooists and were based on the shape of the face. Narrow faced people
usually wore designs of narrow lines or dots to accentuate the length
of the face. Patterns for broad faces tended to have wider lines and
cover more of the chin, making the face look even broader. The upper
lip was not tattooed. Forehead designs were chosen by the wearer and
there were different patterns for men and women. They would be placed
in the middle of the forehead just above the eyebrows and generally
consisted of simple lines, dots and circles. There were a few
variations for the tattoo locations. Warriors may have had circles
tattooed on their chests, with line radiating tower the shoulder, and
important men sometimes would have "T" shaped designs tattooed on both
sides of the face just below the cheekbone.
http://www.tattooarchive.com/oatman.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~indian/oliveoatman.htm
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/39.html
Maud (Stevens) Wagner, eerste vrouwelijke tatoeëerder.
Irene "La Belle" Woodward, "the first and only tattooed lady."
, volgens
zeggen de "1st female tattooed circus attraction early 1880.
,
begon als de "Bearded Lady", later ..... nuja, tis wel duidelijk niet?
,
, de meest bekende.
, oude bekende. (zie oldschool-post)
Cindy Ray, niet de mooiste(understatement) maar wel één van de meest gefotografeerde.
http://www.theworldsstrangestmuseum.com/archive/Cindy Ray/cindy_album_01.htm (t/m9)
, voorheen de meest getatoeëerde vrouw ter wereld.
Recente vrouwelijke top-tatoeëerders
Vyvyn Lazonga
Kari Barba
Juli Moon
Suzanne Fauser
http://www.studiotattoo.com/suzanne.html
http://www.funcitytattoo.com/history/fauser/fauserint.html
Mooi. Genoeg kletspraat gehad nu. Op naar de hitsige galerieën!
In the rain
In the rain galerieën (even goed zoeken, maar ze zitten ertussen)
Virtualave (1, 3, 6)
Tattooedfemales56
Hee, dreadjes?
Tattooed Ladies (2 t/m 12) NSFW!
Atomic Tattoos
Ladies Tattoo Contest (midi waarschuwing)
Michelle Monroe NSFW
CzechTattoo
Tip (Het zit em in de naam!)
Borrel?
Tattoo-Art TMFweb?
Girls Mix
Girls Mix2
Girls Mix3
Mm?
Huh?
Wheh?
The Ugly Tattoo Blues
Ergens in dit plaatje zit een tatoeage verstopt .... (NSFW)
nawoord:
De meeste historische gegevens hierboven zijn afkomstig uit : Bodies of subversion
Het bovenstaande is verre van
compleet, dus voor wat meer info verwijzen wij u naar eerdergenoemd
boek. Absoluut een aanradertje van de eerste orde.
Tattoolog!
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