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July 11, 2015February 11, 2018

TATTOOS ARE A KIND OF LITERATURE

Tattoo News

INSET: Kayan tattoos, ca. 1930. Photograph by H. F. Tillema.

Here’s an idea. Tattoos are a kind of LITERATURE.

If you know how to read them, says anthropologist Lars Krutak, they tell you many things about the person who wears them.

For the Calgary Herald online story, please click here…

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