Maori man receiving a sacred tattoo, New Zealand. The artist or Tohunga ta Moko cuts the skin with an uhi bone knife and applies ink with a chisel. The recipient with facial tattoo and feather headdress lies on a rug in a log hut. New Zealander being tattooed. Woodcut from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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