For thousands of years, Native Americans used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and

This account of the vanishing art of wmen's tribal tattooing is the record of anthropologist Lars Krutak's ten year research with indigenous peoples around the

"For thousands of years astonishingly rich and diverse forms of tattooing have been produced by the Indigenous peoples of North America. Long neglected by anthr

A pictorial study of the design art of the American Indian includes motifs drawn from every tribal and regional craft