Tattooing in the Marquesas #268554

The poorer islanders who have not a superabundance of hogs to dispose of in luxuries, but live chiefly themselves upon breadfruit, are operated upon by novices in the art, who take them at a very low price as subjects for practice. The lowest class of all, the fishermen principally, are Often not able to afford even the pay required by a novice, and are therefore not tattooed at all. (10, p.