410 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
with a sharp-pointed steel instrument, into which some blackish pig- 
ment has been rubbed, filling up some of the markings, while in others 
scarcely a trace remains. 
In connection with the use of the tattoo marks as reproduced on ar- 
tificial objects see Fig. 734. 
Fig. 535 is a copy of a photograph obtained in New Zealand by Prof. 
Russell. It shows tattooing upon the chin. 
Prof. Russell, in his sketch of New Zealand, published in the Am. 
Naturalist, x11, 72, Feb., 1879, remarks, that the desire of the Maori 
for ornament is so great that they covered their features with tattooing, 
Fic, 535.—Tattooed woman, New Zealand. 
transferring indelibly to their faces complicated patterns of curved and 
spiral lines, similar to the designs with which they decorated their 
canoes and their houses. 
BE. J. Wakefield (a) reports of a man observed in New Zealand that 
he was a tangata tabu or sacred personage, and consequently was not 
adorned with tatu. He adds, p. 155, that the deeds of the natives are 
signed with elaborate drawings of the moko or tatu on the chiefs’ faces. 
Dr. George Turner (b) says: 
Herodotus found among the Thracians that the man who was not tattoed was not 
respected. It was the same in Samoa. Until a young man was tattooed he was con- 
sidered in his minority. He could not think of marriage, and he was constantly 
exposed to taunts and ridicule, as being poor and of low birth, and us having no 
