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OCTOBER, 1904.)
TATTOOING IN CENTRAL INDIA.
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TATTOOING IN CENTRAL INDIA.
BY CAPTAIN C. E. LUARD, M.A., Superintendent of Ethnography in Central India. (Continued from p. 228.)
II. THE MĀLAVĀ OR WESTERN SEOTION.
1. Tattooing among Mochis in Mālavā.
(Collected by Mr. D. P. Vakil of Ratlām.) TATTOOING is confined to the female sex. The following parts of the body are tattooed: The
1 forehead, the part between the eye-brows, the left side of the nose, the breast or chest, the upper arms, the forearms between the elbow and the wrist, the backs of the hands and the calves of the legs. Tattooing is generally commenced at the sixth or seventh year of age, and may be done at various periods, sometimes even after the twentieth year. The designs are generally ornamental, and little or no significance is attached to them. Only one of two colours, black or green, is employed.
The designs, (a) On the back of the hand a figure called Sathis -
(b) On the fingers of the right hand -
(c) Between the wrist and elbow of the right arm -
