Historical Overview
• Historical Overview of Tattooing
• Upper Paleolithic (10,000 to 38,000 BC)
• Ancient Egypt
• Greece and Rome
• Africa
• South America
• Gauls, Celts, Goths, Teutons, Picts & Scots
• Japan
• Eastern Europe (Russia) & Western Asia

Tribal Tattoos
• Tribal Tattoo Overview
• Samoa
• Philippines
• Polynesia
• Borneo
• Easter Island
• Maori / New Zealand
• Marquesas
• The Marshall Islands

Early Religious Tattoos
• Religious Tattoo Overview
• Arab Tattooing
• Jewish Tattooing
• Christian Tattooing

Early North American Tattoos
• British Columbia and Washington State (Haida)
• The Arctic / Alaska
• First Nations
• Virginia and Florida

Contemporary Tattooing
• England
• France, Italy
• Germany
• Thailand
• United States
• Circus

Tattoo Museum Bibliography, Resources and Links