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The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiry

Note 332 — Chapter XVI · THE ORIGINS OF SELF-DECORATION

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Schneider, Die Naturvölker, i. pp. 109, 110; Robley, Moko, p. 46; Godden in Journ. Anthr. Inst. xxvi. p. 185 (Nagas); Man, Journ. Anthr. Inst. xii. p. 35, thinks that the Andamanese tattooing is executed “primarily as ornamental, and secondarily as proving the courage of the individual and his (or her) power of enduring pain.”

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