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white chalk," pictured iu Troja, etc., by Dr. Henry Schliemann, New 

 York, 1884, p. 31, No. 1, and here presented, Figure 23. In the absence 

 of knowledge as to the connection of the two sets of parallel lines on 

 each side of the face, with the remainder of the bowl, it is not possible 

 to form any decision as to whether there was any intention to portray 

 face painting or tattooing, or whether the lines merely partook of the 

 general pattern of the bowl. The lines, however, instantly caught the 

 present writer's eye as connected with the subject now under consider 

 ation. 



Fig. 23.— Fragment of bow] from Troja. 

 TATTOOING. 



Tattooing, a permanent marking of the skin as distinguished from 

 the temporary painting, and accomplished by the introduction of color- 

 ing matter under the cutaneous epidermis, was formerly practiced ex- 

 tensively among the Indians of North America. Some authorities for 

 this statement are here quoted, as also some descriptions of the custom 

 where still practiced. 



Capt. John Smith, in " The True Travels, Adventures, etc.," Kich- 

 mond, 1819, Vol. I, page 130, is made to say of the Virginia Indians: 



" They adorne themselues most with copper beads and paintings. 

 Their women, some haue their legs, hands, breasts and face cunningly 

 imbrodered with divers workes, as beasts, serpents, artificially wrought 

 into their flesh with blacke spots." 



The Innuit, according to Cook, practiced tattooing perpendicular lines 

 upon the chin of women, and sometimes similar lines extending back 

 ward from near the outer portions of the eyes. 



Mr. Gatschet reports that very few Klamath men now tattoo their 

 faces, but such as are still observed have but a single line of black run- 

 ning from the middle of the lower lip to the chin. The women have 

 three lines, one from each corner of the mouth and one dowu over the 

 center of the chin. 



The Modoc women tattoo three blue lines, extending perpendicularly 



