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Article: Youth and Tattoos: What School Health Personnel Should Know.
- Article from:
- Journal of School Health
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
- Author:
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Various cultures worldwide have performed tattooing for thousands of years.[1] Sailors traveling through the Polynesian islands during the 17th and 18th centuries recorded extensive tattooing on both men and women. The earliest known examples of tattooing come from 12th century Egypt. Tattooing was widely practiced in Micronesia, India, Burma, and Japan. The Polynesian word "tatau" is the stem of the English word tattoo.[2] Tattooing increased in popularity during the 19th century in the United States and Britain. This increase is attributed in part to the invention of the electric tattoo machine in the early 1890s that made the practice more efficient and accessible.[3]
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