414 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
Nordenskiéld (a) gives the following account of tattooing among 
the Chukchis of Siberia: 
It is principally the women that tattoo. The operation is performed by means of 
pins and soot; perhaps also graphite is employed, which the Chukchis gather. The 
tattooing of the women seems to be the same along the whole Chukchi coast from Cape 
Shelagskoy to Bering strait. The usual mode of tattooing is found represented in 
Nordenskiéld’s ‘‘ Voyage of the Vega around Asia and Europe,” second part, p. 104. 
Still the tattooing on the cheek is not rarely more compound than is there shown. 
The picture given below [Fig. 539] represents a design of tattooing on the cheek. 
Girls under nine or ten years are neyer tattooed. On reaching that age they 
gradually receive the two streaks running from the point of the nose to the root of 
the hair; next follow the vertical chin streaks and lastly the tattooing on the cheeks, 
of which the anterior arches are first formed and the posterior part of the design 
last. The last named in fact is the part of the design which is oftenest wanting. 
The accompanying picture (the left hand of the same Fig.) represents the tattoo- 
ing of the arms of a woman from the town of T’apka. The design of the tattooing 
extends from the shoulder joint, where the upper triple ring is situated, to the hand 
joint at the bottom. As appears from the drawing, the tattooing on the right an’ 
left arm is different. 
Fic, 539.—Chukchi tattoo marks. 
The men at the winter station of the Vega tattooed themselves only with two 
short horizontal streaks across the root of the nose. Some of the men at Rerkaypiya 
(C. North), on the other hand, had a cross tattooed on each cheek bone; others had 
merely painted similar ones with red mold. Some Chukchis at the latter place had 
also the upper lip tattooed. 
The Chukchi designs are much simpler than those of the Eskimo. 
Dr. Bazin, in “ Etude sur le Tatouage dans la Régence de Tunis,” in 
L’Anthropologie (b), tells that the practice of tattooing is very wide- 
spread and elaborate in Tunisia, but chiefly among the natives of 
Arab race, who are nomads, workmen in the towns, and laborers, and 
also among the fellahs. The Berbers, on the contrary, who have re- 
mained mountaineers, the merchants of the coast towns, and the rich 
proprietors are little or not at all tattooed. In regard to the last class 
this proves that tattooing has become nothing but an ornament, since 
the members of this class are clothed in such a way that the legs and 
arms are completely covered, so that it would be useless to draw fig- 
ures which would be invisible or almost entirely hidden. He adds 
