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Skin Deep:
A Cultural History of Tattooing
March 23–September 1, 2006
This new exhibition will explore the tradition of indelible marking among indigenous peoples and other tattoo communities, past and present. Drawing from the accounts of explorers, historians and anthropologists, as well as the curator’s publications and field research, Skin Deep is a record of tattoo artistry and culture presented through interviews, objects, and many images from around the tattoo world dating from 5000 BCE to the present.
The exhibit includes contemporary and historical photographs, rare books, engravings, postcards, tattoo instruments, documentary film and other visual media. Although the exhibition examines the history and cultural significance behind ancient and more modern forms of tattooing, it also attempts to establish new ways of seeing and reading the messages encoded in tattooing practices themselves.
Guest Curator Lars Krutak (a Ph.D. candidate at the ASU School of Human Evolution & Social Change) http://www.vanishingtattoo.com/lars_krutak.htm has spent the past ten years recording the stories of tattooed people from around the globe.
Images from left to right:
• Philippine tattoo revitalization, southern California (Lars Krutak, 2004)
• The “Painted Prince” Giolo (engraving dated 1692)
• Kosovo Albanian youth with tribal tattoo (Lars Krutak, 2001)
• Motu tattooist and client, Papua New Guinea (ca. 1930)
• Kayan woman, Borneo (Lars Krutak, 2002)
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