Skip to content

LARS KRUTAK

Tattoo Anthropologist

  • Articles
  • News
  • Videos
    • clips
  • Lectures
  • Book shop
  • Bibliography
  • Contact
  •  
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • Facebook
October 24, 2015

7_Bianca_Irene copy

Share this:

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Reddit
  • More
  • Print
  • Tumblr
  • Pocket

Post navigation

Previous article LARS’ Q & A IN SMITHSONIAN SCIENCE

larskrutak
Historian and tattoo researcher Jamie Jelinski in Historian and tattoo researcher Jamie Jelinski in battle with Quebec over showcasing murder victim's skin in museum display. ** The skin has a tattoo on it and belonged to a poor working woman who was killed by her best friend in 1929. The victim, Mildred Brown, is buried in an unmarked grave on the Island of Montreal. ** Jelinski, who wrote a chapter in a book about museums' treatment of working-class people, also wants to know the bigger timeline of how people's body parts have been kept and put on display in Quebec. ** But after he started asking questions about this particular exhibit, at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City, it was removed from display and his other questions ignored, he said. ** He has filed a number of access to information requests which will be argued in court over the next two months. To read more, visit Canadian news outlets and: ** https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/historian-in-battle-with-quebec-over-showcasing-murder-victim-s-skin-in-museum-display-1.5411924 #tattoo #tattooedskin #tattoomuseum #montréal #montreal #canada #tattoohistory #museumdisplay #missingpeople
Happy to have found these neglected “Latin Ameri Happy to have found these neglected “Latin American Tomb Effigies” at an auction - WHAT?! These are REALLY Burmese hand painted wooden figurines depicting Matu Chin, based on the woman's facial tattoos. To learn more about Matu Chin tattoos - and many other Indigenous Chin tattooing traditions in Myanmar - please check out Jens Uwe Parkitny's new website https://jensburma.com. Enjoy! PHOTO: Ma Shen Tang, Southern Chin State, Myanmar, 2005 © Jens Uwe Parkitny #chintribe #myanmar #myanmarart #burma #tattooart #woodentattoos #indigenous #southernchinstate #jensuweparkitny #facialtattoo #effigy #figurines #handpaintedart
Grab a Larsarita y happy Cinco de Mayo! Salute! #c Grab a Larsarita y happy Cinco de Mayo! Salute! #cincodemayo #cincodemayoparty #disfrute
#tattooexhibition #nordictattoo #nordictattoos #io #tattooexhibition #nordictattoo #nordictattoos #iowa #ancienttattoo #blackworktattoo #ink #tattoos #scandinavianstyle #scandinavia #vikings #vikingtattoo
Load More... Follow on Instagram

Explore the site

  • Magical tattooing
  • Medicinal tattooing
  • Scarification
  • Tattoo conventions
  • Tattoo shops
  • Tattooing women
  • Traditional techniques
  • Exhibitions
  • Lars’ tattoos

Connect with Lars

  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • Facebook

Sign Up for Updates


    Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: perle by Nudge Themes.
    loading Cancel
    Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
    Email check failed, please try again
    Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.