Part one of term paper
In Polynesia, in the island of Tonga tattooing once symbolized something it symbolized the place that a Tongan held in society. In an article written by Tricia Allen a doctoral candidate in anthropology form the University of Hawaii she talks about the art of tattooing and how it has been lost throughout the years. This was an art that was ...

Part two of term paper
... their own monarchy, in other words a single ruler governed them. Thanks once again to the Europeans another great injustice was done to certain group of people. If it wasn’t for a French explorer by the name of Dumont dUrville and a few others we would know next to nothing about the art of tattooing in Tonga. Apparently dUrville demonstrated a picture of a Tongan man’s tattoo. Tattoos in Tonga were done with tools made out of bone or shell. One of the tools was heated with a flammable oil ...