It used to be quite common in Fiji and Samoa for a man to bear upon his arm or body a certificate of his birth which was practically indelible. Tattooing is earned on in these islands to an absurd extent, and it is the practice to tattoo on the hands of a mother the date of her children's births. Sometimes also an enthusiastic father will tattoo the date of the birth on the child itself, and, no matter how long it lives, the certificate will remain easily decipherable.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17633, 9 December 1922, Page 3
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