Captain James Cook on the method of “Tattowing” in Tahiti

“Their method of Tattowing I shall now describe. The colour they use is lamp black, prepar’d from the Smoak of a Kind of Oily nut, used by them instead of Candles. The instrument for pricking it under the Skin is made of very thin flatt pieces of bone or Shell, from a quarter of an [...] http://bit.ly/cOGyTT