This old tattooing implement from a Wellington private collection has a human bone tip and a wooden prong handle. Some instruments were far more elaborately and carefully carved than this specimen.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 6
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31This old tattooing implement from a Wellington private collection has a human bone tip and a wooden prong handle. Some instruments were far more elaborately and carefully carved than this specimen. Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 6
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