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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 75. Chapters: Tattoo, Scarification, Tattoo machine, Barnet Burns, History of tattooing, Tattoo removal, Istv n Cs. Bartos, Tattoo medical issues, Corneal tattooing, Human billboard, Pe'a, LA Ink, Irezumi, T moko, Permanent makeup, Legal status of tattooing in the United States, Tattoo ink, Criminal tattoo, Temporary tattoo, Miami Ink, Mokomokai, Tattoo artist, SS blood group tattoo, UV tattoo, Yantra tattooing, Flash, Bag Balm, Inked, Horimono, Bornean traditional tattooing, Christian tattooing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Janet 'Rusty' Skuse, Tattoo studio, Herbert Hoffmann, InfinitInk, Prison tattooing, Lee Wagstaff, Identification in Nazi camps, Five Dots Tattoo, Chinese character tattoo, Lucky Diamond Rich, Julia Gnuse, Tom Leppard, Lower back tattoo, London Ink, Old school, Sleeve tattoo, Genital tattooing, New skool, Prick, Marquesan tattoo, Tattoo convention, Swallow tattoo, Finger moustache tattoo, Medical tattoo, Teardrop tattoo, Body suit, Tattoo art style, New York Tattoo Museum, Black-and-gray, Cover-up, Malu, Dermagraphic, Tattoo Highway, TATSoul. Excerpt: A tattoo is body art made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoos on humans are a type of decorative body modification, while tattoos on animals are most commonly used for identification purposes. The first written reference to the word, "tattoo" (or Samoan "Tatau") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour in 1769: "I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition." Tattooing has been practiced for centuries worldwide. The Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, traditionally had facial tattoos. Today one can find Berbers of Tamazgha (North Africa), M ori of New Zealand, Hausa people of North...
