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the throat toward the corners of the mouth, sloping outward to the angle of the 
lower jaw. This is all that is required by custom, but some of the belles do not 
stop here. * * * None of the men are tattooed. 
An early notice of tattooing in the territory now occupied by the 
United States, mentioned in Hakluyt (d), is in the visit of the Florida 
chief, Satouriona, in 1564, to Réné Laudonniere. His tattooed figure 
was drawn by Le Moyne, Tabulie Vii, 1x. 
Capt. John Smith (a) is made to say of the Virginia Indians: 
They adorne themselues most with copper beads and paintings. Their tyvomen, 
some haue their legs, hands, breasts and face cunningly imbrodered with divers 
workes, as beasts, serpents, artificially wrought into their flesh with blacke spots. 
Thomas Hariot (a), in Pl. xxt1, here reproduced as Fig. 516, Dis- 
coveries of 1585, discussing “The Marckes of sundrye of the Chief 
mene of Virginia,” says: 
The inhabitats of all the cuntrie for the most parte haue marks rased on their 
backs, wherby yt may be knowen what Princes subiects they bee, or of what place 
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they haue their originall. For which cause we haue set downe those marks in this 
figure, and haue annexed the names of the places, that they might more easelye be 
discerned. Which industrie hath god indued them withal although they be verye 
simple, and rude. And to confesse a truthe I cannot remember, that euer I saw a 
better or quietter people than they. 
The marks which I observed amonge them, are heere put downe in order folowinge. 
The marke which is expressed by A. belongeth tho Wingino, the cheefe lorde of 
Roanoae. 
That which hath B. is the marke of Wingino his sisters husbande. 
Those which be noted with the letters of C. and D. belonge ynto diverse chefe 
lordes in Secotan. 
Those which haue the letters E. F. G. are certaine cheefe men of Pomeiooc, and 
Aquascogoe. 
Frére Gabriel Sagard (b) says (about 1636) of the Hurons that they 
tattooed by scratching with a bone of bird or fish, a black powder being 
applied to the bleeding wounds. The operation was not completed at 
