Alison wrote:
> "Tattooing by puncture, with a sharp tool or needle
> which introduces a dye under the top layer of skin,
> was first practiced, so far as we know, in Ancient
> Egypt. Clay dolls fashioned during that civilization
> are the earliest evidence of tattooing to have been
> preserved. I have seen two of these dolls, with their
> tattoo-marks, in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Dr.
> Hambly says there is positive archeological proof that
> body markings by puncture tattoo were applied to human
> beings as well as female clay figurines in Egypt
> between 4000 and 2000 B.C."
> from Memoirs of a Tattooist by George Burchett.
>
> sure as hell didn't start with the nazi's, certainly
> didn't end there.
The pre-European Maori in NZ also practised the art of tattooing, the moko
(a complex facial design) being of great spiritual and cultural
significance. I doubt they had anything to do with Nazis either.
Hell
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