412 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
in the skin until the blood flows, and then smear on it in spots the soot 
from pans and pots, which, after the staunching of the blood, leaves an 
ineffaceable bluish spot or streak. Besides the breast and upper arm 
they also tattoo in the same way the calf of the leg, and in some cases 
the forehead, as a mere ornamentation, both of men and women—chil- 
dren only in very exceptional cases. 
The Bonggose and Sirito are much tattooed over the breast and 
shoulder. At Saoekorém, a Doré settlement, a few women were seen. 
tattooed on the breast and in the face. At Doré it is called “pa,” and 
is done with thorns, and charcoal is rubbed 
over the bloody spots; only here and at Man- 
sinam is it a sign of mourning; everywhere else 
it merely serves as ornamentation. 
At Ansoes it does not oceur much, and is 
principally in the face; it is there called “toi.” 
It is found somewhat more commonly on Noord- 
Japen, and then on shoulder and upper arm. 
In Tarfia, Tana-mérah, and Humboldt bay but 
few persons were tattooed, mostly on the fore- 
head. 
The tattooing is always the work of women, 
generally members of the family, both on men 
and on women. First the figure is drawn with 
charcoal, and if it suits the taste then begins 
the pricking with the thorn of a citrus ora fine 
bone of some animal. It is very painful and 
only a small spot can be pricked at one time, 
so long as the tattooee can stand it. If the 
pain is too violent, the wounds are gently pressed 
with a certain leaf that has been warmed, in 
order to soothe the pain, and the work is con- 
tinued only after three or four days. No special 
names are given to the figures; those are chosen 
which suit the taste. Children are never tat- 
tooed at the wish of the parents; it is entirely 
a matter of individual choice. 
Fic, 537.—Tattooed Paupan 
woman. Mr. Forbes, in Journ. Anthrop. Inst. G. B. 
and I., August, 1883, p. 10, says that in Timor Laut, an island of the 
Malay archipelago— 
Both sexes tattoo a few simple devices, circles, stars, and pointed crosses, on the 
breast, on the brow, on the cheek, and on the wrists, and scar themselves on the 
arms and shoulders with red-hot stones, in imitation of immense smallpox marks, 
in order to ward off that disease. * ~*~ * I have, however, seen no one variola- 
marked, nor can I learn of any epidemic of this disease among them. 
Prof. Brauns, of Halle, reports, Science, 111, No. 50, p. 69, that among 
the Ainos of Yazo the women tattoo their chins to imitate the beards 
of the men. 
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