TAS: Convict penchant for tattoos trapped a colonial lag

AAP General News (Australia)
02-03-1999
TAS: Convict penchant for tattoos trapped a colonial lag

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By Don Woolford

HOBART, AAP - On October 29, 1844, police arrested a well-dressed man, with plenty of money
in his pockets in a Hobart street.

When he was stripped, the police found his body covered with tattoos - punctured dots
stained with ink and gunpowder.

They included a pirate's skull flag, Christ on the cross above two praying figures, a large
star, and the Tree of Knowledge encircled by a serpent and watched by a Knight Templar.

On his breast was a woman representing Hibernia and the …