Lazy Sunday Afternoon

The sun was shining and the bees buzzing and I started to read my book that I got for my birthday The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman ."Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. "The Blue Tattoo" tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapais Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own."It is interesting to see how tattoos once considered savage/or common are now accepted culturally and socially.Indigenous Tattoos resurface after 95 yearsTattoo History MuseumMaori face design on a stone, maori call it Tā mokoThis is" Sweetum's" who lives on a shelf in Yellow Springs somewhere.I found the doll at a Garage Sale and painted her with black gesso, sponged white acrylic paint, black acrylic for the designs, and a final coat of resin.So, err even Barbie has tattoos now, ahem!Tattoo Barbie ProjectTattoo Doll Project