Perhaps the Portuguese woman with the tattoo was influenced by her new
environment to get a tattoo.
Tattooing is cultural with many people in Hawaii. Hawaiians & Samoans come to
mind.
helen
From: A Faria <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 12:50 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!
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