Convict Tattoos: Marked Men and Women of Australia
120 pages
“For a convict devoid of possessions, deprived of family, stripped of identity and sentenced to hard labor in an unfamiliar land, a tattoo provided a link with what had been lost.”
CONVICT TATTOOS explores various aspects of tattooing - from the symbolism of tattoo motifs (e.g. anchors, Masonic symbols, religious imagery, animals, etc) to inking methods, from their use as means of identification and control to expressions of individualism and defiance providing a fascinating glimpse of the lives of the people behind the records.
(2016)
120 pages
“For a convict devoid of possessions, deprived of family, stripped of identity and sentenced to hard labor in an unfamiliar land, a tattoo provided a link with what had been lost.”
CONVICT TATTOOS explores various aspects of tattooing - from the symbolism of tattoo motifs (e.g. anchors, Masonic symbols, religious imagery, animals, etc) to inking methods, from their use as means of identification and control to expressions of individualism and defiance providing a fascinating glimpse of the lives of the people behind the records.
(2016)
120 pages
“For a convict devoid of possessions, deprived of family, stripped of identity and sentenced to hard labor in an unfamiliar land, a tattoo provided a link with what had been lost.”
CONVICT TATTOOS explores various aspects of tattooing - from the symbolism of tattoo motifs (e.g. anchors, Masonic symbols, religious imagery, animals, etc) to inking methods, from their use as means of identification and control to expressions of individualism and defiance providing a fascinating glimpse of the lives of the people behind the records.
(2016)
