Collection:
Clothing & Textiles
Title:
Miscellaneous papers relating to painting and tattoos
Date:
ND
Scope & Content:
Typewritten pages describing the Indians use of paint and tattoos.
Roger Williams said that the Indians often painted "moose and deere-skins for their summer wearing, with varietie of fromes and colours." The men paint their faces in war. Wood described tattooing "Many of the better sort bearing upon their cheeks certain pourtracture of beasts as beaares, deeres, mooses, wolves and some of fowlls, whiich be not a superficil painting but a certain incision under which they convery a certain kinde of blacke unchangeable inke…
7 pages
Roger Williams said that the Indians often painted "moose and deere-skins for their summer wearing, with varietie of fromes and colours." The men paint their faces in war. Wood described tattooing "Many of the better sort bearing upon their cheeks certain pourtracture of beasts as beaares, deeres, mooses, wolves and some of fowlls, whiich be not a superficil painting but a certain incision under which they convery a certain kinde of blacke unchangeable inke…
7 pages
Object ID:
DOC.ND01922
Object Name:
Misc. papers
Search Terms:
paint
tattoo
burial
tattoo
burial