Tattoos and Tattooing: A Bibliography
Books
Berchon, Ernest. Histoire Médicale du Tatouage. Paris: J.B. Bailliere, 1969.
GN419.3 .B4
Borofsky, Robert and Alan Howard. Developments in Polynesian Ethnology. Honolulu, HI:
University of Hawaii Press, 1989. GN670 .D48 1989
British Tattoo Machine Patents & Related Ones. Berkeley, CA: Tattoo Archive, 1997.
GT2345 .B74
Camphausen, Rufus C. Return of the Tribal: a Celebration of Body Adornment: Piercing,
Tattooing, Scarification, Body Painting. Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1997.
GN419.15 .C35 1997
Caplan, Jane. Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. GT2345 .W75 2000
Dinter, Maarten Hesselt van. Tribal Tattoo Designs. Amsterdam: Pepin Press, 2000. GT2347
.D56 2000
_____. The World of Tattoo: An Illustrated History. Amsterdam: KIT, 2005.
GT2345 .D56 2005
Ebensten, Hanns. Pierced Hearts and True Love: an Illustrated History of the Origin and
Development of European Tattooing and a Survey of its Present State. London: D.
Verschoyle, 1953. GN419.3 .E2
Emory, Kenneth Pike. Hawaiian Tattooing. Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1946.
GN670 .B6 v.18 no.17
Fellman, Sandi and D.M. Thomas. The Japanese Tattoo. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986.
GT2346.J3 F45 O
Fellowes, C.H. The Tattoo Book. Princeton, NJ: Pyne Press, 1990. GN419.3 .F44 1990
Forbes, David W. Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941.
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press and Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992.
N6530.H3 F67 1992
Hambly, Wilfrid Dyson. The History of Tattooing and its Significance: With Some Account of
Other Forms of Corporal Marking. London: H.F. and G. Witherby, 1925. GN419.3
.H19
History of Tattooing in San Francisco. Berkeley, CA: Tattoo Archive, 1994.
GT2345 .H56 1994
Kitamura, Takahiro. Tattoos of the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Motifs in the Japanese Tattoo.
Amsterdam: Hotei Pub., 2003. GN419.3 .K58 2003
Lacassagne, A. Les Tatouages: Étude Anthropologique et Médico-Légale. Paris: J.B. Baillière,
1881. GN419.3 .L12
Linton, Ralph. The Material Culture of the Marquesas Islands. Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum
Press, 1923. GN670 .B5 v.8 no.5 O
Lucas, Don and Paula Lucas. A Narrative Biography of Franklin Paul Rogers, the Father of
American Tattooing: from the Notes, Photo Albums, and Interviews of the Late F. Paul
Rogers. New Orleans: Lucas Enterprises, 1990.
GT2345 .L83 1990
Martin, Henry Byam. The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N. Salem, MA:
Peabody Museum of Salem, 1981. DU21 .M37
McCabe, Michael. New York City Tattoo: the Oral History of an Urban Art. Honolulu: Hardy
Marks, c1997. GT2345 .M33 1997
Meredith, J.C. The Tattooed Man. Copenhagen: A. F. Høst, 1958. G530 .H62 M4
Miller, E. J. A Reproduction of Prof. E.J. Miller's Tattoo Supply Catalog. Berkeley, CA: Tattoo
Archive, 1997. GT2345 .R46
Morgan, Louis. The Modern Tattooist. Berkeley, CA: Courier Publishing, 1912.
GT2345 .M67
Morse, Albert L. The Tattooists. San Francisco: A. L. Morse, 1977.
GN419.3 .M884 1977 O
Murray-Oliver, Anthony. Captain Cook’s Hawaii. Wellington, New Zealand: Millwood Press,
1975. G420.C73 M87
Olivier, Douglas L. Ancient Tahitian Society. Honolulu, HI: University Press of Hawaii, 1974.
DU870 .O43
Parry, Albert. Tattoo: Secrets of a Strange Art as Practiced Among the Natives of the United
States. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1933. GN419.3 .P2
Robley, Horatio Gordon. Moko, or, Maori Tattooing. London: Chapman and Hall, 1896.
GN667.N9 R6
Rukstinat, George J. Tattoos: A Survey with Special Reference to Tattoos and Scars as
Indicators of Syphilis. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1941.
GN419.3 .R92
Sanders, Clinton R. Customizing the Body: the Art and Culture of Tattooing. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1989. GT2345 .S26
Steward, Samuel M. Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: a Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs,
Sailors, and Street-corner Punks, 1950-1965. New York: Haworth Press, 1990.
GT5960.T36 S74 1990
Taylor, Clyde Romer Hughes. A Pacific Bibliography, 2nd ed. Oxford: The Clarendon Press,
1965. Z4501 .T3 1965
Taylor, Richard. Te Ika a Maui, or, New Zealand and its inhabitants, 2nd ed. London: W.
Macintosh, H.I. Jones, 1870. DU411 .T2
U.S. Tattoo Machine Patents & Related Ones. Berkeley, CA: Tattoo Archive, 1987.
GT2345 .U54
Younis, Richard P. The Relationship of Tattoos to Personal Adjustment among Enlisted
Submarine School Volunteers. New London, CT: Navy Dept., Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery, 1959. GN419.3 .Y7
Periodicals
Archive File PER GN397 .A73
Articles
Barron, Daniel. “The Devil’s Blue.” Seaport 39, no. 1 (spring 1995): 4. PER VM1 .S695
Bowes, David B. “Needles and Skins.” Chesapeake Bay Magazine 28, no. 8 (December 1998).
PER F176 .C44
Burg, B. R. “Sailors and Tattoos in the Early American Steam Navy: Evidence from the Diary of
Philip C. Van Buskirk, 1884-1889.” International Journal of Maritime History 6, no. 1
(June 1994): 161-174. PER VK1 .I58
“Tattoo History from A to Z.” Archive File, spring 1998, 1-18. PER GN397 .A73
Online Resources
http://www.tattooarchive.com/index.htm
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Revised and updated by Bill Edwards-Bodmer, August 2008