Tattooing Song

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Metadata

Tattooing Song

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Taylor

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 24:138, 249, August 1888.

First line

He who pays well let him be beautifully ornamented

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Maori

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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Notes and attribution research

New Zealand tattooing song, translated by Mr. Taylor from A. F. Angas’s Savage Life and Scenes and cited in Laura Alexandrine Smith’s Workers’ Song (238-50). Smith does not identify the song’s original language. (HR)

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Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8295

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Tattooing Song