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Tattooing Found on a 1600 Year Old Frozen, Mummified Body from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George S. Smith  and
Michael R. Zimmerman M.D.
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Abstract

Beach erosion at Cape Kialegak, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, revealed the frozen, naturally mummified body of a 1600 year old Eskimo woman. The body has extensive tattooing on the dorsal aspects of both the right and left forearms, hands and fingers. The tattooing pattern corresponds with known design patterns for the Old Bering Sea phase.

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American Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 433 - 437
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1975

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