I want to thank everyone for responding. This has been interesting especially the suggestions that the person traveled, colonial Portuguese in Africa, and so forth. I have asked the person if they would allow me to post the image they have of the tattoos for this group to see.
You can research for decades and still see something you have never seen before! Thanks for your help! On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 3:55:53 PM UTC-7, ggerva...@centurylink.net wrote: > > Don't know if this helps but there is an article Tattooed Secrets of > Women's History in Magude District, Southern Mozambique. > > The article explorers women's experiences of Portuguese Colonialism in > Southern Mozambique through the changing practices of body marking since > around the 1800's. > > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"A Faria" <antoni...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > *To: *azo...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > *Sent: *Tuesday, July 14, 2015 2:50:51 PM > *Subject: *[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Portuguese Women and Tattoos (early > 1900s) > > Never heard of a Portuguese woman ever having a tattoo it would never have > been socially acceptable she must have lived abroad before moving to Hawaii > prior to Hawaii there were sugar cane workers from the islands in Louisiana > one generation earlier. > > > > On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 2:31:46 PM UTC-7, IslandRoutes wrote: >> >> Another researcher asked me about something that I'd never seen before, >> so I thought I'd ask here. His female ancestors was born in 1885 and >> migrated to Hawaii with her parents. She had a tattoo on her arm which >> looks like w w and then 3 or 4 symbols. >> >> I'm curious if anyone has seen this before with Portuguese women from >> that period? Other than the suggestions that it was initials of some sort >> (the w definitely was...but the others look more like symbols), we can't >> come up with any specific reason for the tattoos. >> >> I've been working with Portuguese Hawaiian genealogy for 25 years and not >> once has anyone told me their female ancestors born in the 1800s had a >> tattoo. >> >> Any ideas if it does represent anything? >> Thanks! >> > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
