56 Heavily Tattooed Women Stock Photos, High-Res Pictures, and Images - Getty Images

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Black and white vintage prints, in two columns: captioned "Romanzoff Islanders" depicting a heavily tattooed man and woman from the Marshall Islands, each wearing mat skirts, headpieces, and large earrings; and "Dyak Warrior and Dusum" depicting two Dayak men, the man at left wearing full ceremonial dress, including an orangutan cloak, a feather headdress, and holding a sumpitan and shield covered with tufts of human hair, and the man at right wearing ordinary clothing consisting of necklaces, loincloth, and a plain spear, published in John George Wood's volume "The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world, being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics", 1877. Courtesy Internet Archive. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty