Tattooing In World

The 1830s castaway James F. O’Connell sported a full-body tattoo. In the Pacific’s Caroline Islands, the traditional patterns gave him his life and made him fully human. In the streets of New York, on the other hand, women and children ran screaming from his presence, while ministers warned from the pulpit that viewing O’Connell’s tattoos would transfer the marks to any woman’s unborn baby. O’