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Atlas Entries

Reader pages for the people, practices, shops, artifacts, and events pinned inside the interactive Tattoo History Atlas globe.

218 Entries

Ötzi the Iceman 3300 BCE · Ancient · Person Ötztal Alps · Austria/Italy border Chinchorro Mummies 2563 BCE · Ancient · Tradition El Morro de Arica · Atacama coast, Chile Amunet, Priestess of Hathor 2000 BCE · Ancient · Person Deir el-Bahari · Thebes, Egypt Nubian Female Tattoos 2000 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Middle Nile tattoo corpus · Sudan Polynesian Tatau 1500 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Samoa · western Polynesia Bedouin Wasm and Daqq 1000 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Levant and Arabian Peninsula Pictish and Celtic Tattooing Claims 0700 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Britain and Gaul Jewish Tattoo History 0600 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Jerusalem, Israel and global diaspora Khalkubi 0500 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Iranian Plateau Princess of Ukok 0500 BCE · Ancient · Person Ukok Plateau · Altai Mountains Marquesan Tattooing 0200 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Nuku Hiva · Marquesas Islands Li (Hlai) Women's Tattooing 0110 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Central highlands · Hainan, China Amazigh (Berber) Tattoos 0100 BCE · Ancient · Tradition Atlas Mountains · Morocco Maya Tattooing 0250 CE · Classical · Tradition Northern Yucatan · Mexico The Momia Tolteca (Oaxaca) 0250 CE · Classical · Person near Santa Maria Camotlan · Huajuapan, Oaxaca Records of the Three Kingdoms 0297 CE · Classical · Event Western Jin court · Luoyang, China Inuit Kakiniit and Tunniit 0400 CE · Classical · Tradition Inuit Nunangat · the circumpolar Arctic The Cape Kiyalighaq Mummy 0400 CE · Classical · Person St. Lawrence Island · Sivuqaq, Alaska The Lady of Cao 0450 CE · Classical · Person Huaca Cao Viejo · El Brujo, Chicama Valley, Peru Early Christian Tattooing 0465 CE · Classical · Tradition Gaza and Byzantine Palestine Procopius of Gaza 0500 CE · Medieval · Person Gaza · Byzantine Palestine Coptic Christian Tattooing 0528 CE · Medieval · Tradition Egypt and Jerusalem Hawaiian Kākau 0800 CE · Medieval · Tradition Hawai'i Iban Borneo Tattooing 0800 CE · Medieval · Tradition Sarawak · Borneo Kalinga Batok 1000 CE · Medieval · Tradition Buscalan · Cordillera, Philippines The Chiribaya Tattooed Woman 1000 CE · Medieval · Person Osmore Valley · near Ilo, southern Peru Chimu Tattooing 1100 CE · Medieval · Tradition Chan Chan · north coast, Peru Haida Tattooing (Ki-da) 1200 CE · Medieval · Tradition Haida Gwaii · British Columbia Tlingit Crest Tattooing 1200 CE · Medieval · Tradition Southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia Sak Yant 1300 CE · Medieval · Tradition Bangkok · Thailand Ta Moko 1300 CE · Medieval · Tradition Aotearoa · New Zealand Dai (Tai Lue) Men's Tattooing 1400 CE · Medieval · Tradition Xishuangbanna · Yunnan, China The Qilakitsoq Mummies 1475 CE · Medieval · Event Uummannaq Fjord · Greenland Gonzalo Guerrero 1511 CE · Enlightenment · Person Chactemal · Quintana Roo and Belize border The Mani Auto-da-fe (1562) 1562 CE · Enlightenment · Event Mani · Yucatan, Mexico Ojibwe and Anishinaabe Tattooing 1600 CE · Enlightenment · Tradition Lake Superior · western Great Lakes Wendat and Northern Iroquoian Tattooing 1632 CE · Enlightenment · Tradition Wendake · Georgian Bay, Ontario Ainu Sinuye 1650 CE · Enlightenment · Tradition Hokkaido and Sakhalin · Ainu homelands Ratge Stubbe, 1669 Jerusalem Pilgrim 1669 CE · Early Modern · Person Old City pilgrim tattoo trade · Jerusalem Japanese Irezumi 1700 CE · Early Modern · Tradition Edo · Tokyo, Japan Tebori Technique 1700 CE · Early Modern · Tradition Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture · Japan The Four Indian Kings (1710) 1710 CE · Enlightenment · Event London · England Yakuza and Irezumi 1745 CE · Early Modern · Tradition Edo and Osaka · Japan Razzouk Tattoo, Jerusalem 1750 CE · Industrial · Tradition Razzouk Tattoo · 31 St George Street, Old City, Jerusalem Cook Records "Tatau" 1769 CE · Enlightenment · Event Matavai Bay / Fort Venus · Tahiti Joseph Banks 1769 CE · Enlightenment · Person Endeavour at Matavai Bay / Fort Venus · Tahiti The Sailor Tattoo Tradition 1770 CE · Early Modern · Tradition Global maritime (Atlantic and Pacific port cities) Mai (Omai) of Raiatea 1774 CE · Enlightenment · Person Raiatea · Society Islands Jean-Baptiste Cabri 1796 CE · Enlightenment · Person Nuku Hiva · Marquesas Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1798 CE · Enlightenment · Person Edo, Japan Horiuno I (Kamei Unosuke) 1843 CE · Early Modern · Person Kanda, Tokyo (Edo), Japan First U.S. Tattoo Shop 1870 CE · Industrial · Event Lower Manhattan · New York City Martin Hildebrandt 1870 CE · Industrial · Person Oak Street / Fourth Ward · Manhattan Gus Wagner, The Globetrotting Tattooed Man 1872 CE · Victorian · Person Marietta · Ohio; itinerant American interior Lew Alberts 1880 CE · Victorian · Person 11 Chatham Square · Bowery, NYC Sutherland Macdonald 1889 CE · Victorian · Person 76 Jermyn Street · London Tom Riley 1890 CE · Victorian · Person London · England Electric Machine Patented 1891 CE · Industrial · Event 5 Chatham Square · New York City Samuel O'Reilly 1891 CE · Industrial · Person 5 Chatham Square · later 11 Chatham Square, NYC Alfred South 1898 CE · Early Modern · Person London, England Mexican and Central American Prison Tattooing 1900 CE · Early Modern · Tradition Mexico City and Northern Triangle Charlie Wagner 1904 CE · Industrial · Person 11 Chatham Square · Bowery, NYC Maud Wagner 1907 CE · Industrial · Person Forest Park · Saint Louis World's Fair August "Cap" Coleman 1918 CE · Early Modern · Person 427 E. Main Street · Norfolk, Virginia Fred Baldwin 1920 CE · Early Modern · Person British Columbia, Canada Russian Criminal Tattoos (Vorovskoy Mir) 1920 CE · Modern · Tradition Soviet Union and post Soviet Russia · prison system Bert Grimm 1928 CE · Early Modern · Person 22 S. Chestnut Place · Long Beach Pike Joseph Hartley 1928 CE · Early Modern · Person Bristol, England Doc Forbes (Forbes Hendry) 1930 CE · Early Modern · Person East Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Shodai Horiyoshi (Yoshitsugu Muramatsu) 1930 CE · Modern · Person Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture · Japan Cliff Raven 1932 CE · Early Modern · Person Chicago Tattooing Co. · 900 W. Belmont Avenue Whang-Od Oggay 1932 CE · Contemporary · Person Buscalan · Kalinga, Philippines The Great Omi (Horace Ridler) 1934 CE · Early Modern · Person England and international touring Chicano Prison Tattooing 1940 CE · Early Modern · Tradition California prisons and East Los Angeles · United States Paul Rogers 1945 CE · Modern · Person Iron Factory · 1200 Shetter Ave, Jacksonville Beach James Ho (Rose Tattoo) 1946 CE · Modern · Person Rose Tattoo · Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins 1948 CE · Modern · Person 1033 Smith Street · Hotel Street, Honolulu Pinky Yun 1949 CE · Modern · Person Ricky and Pinky · Lockhart Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Horihide (Kazuo Oguri) 1950 CE · Modern · Person Gifu, Gifu Prefecture · Japan Kayabi and Ikpeng Tattooing 1950 CE · Modern · Tradition Xingu Indigenous Park · Mato Grosso, Brazil Les Skuse 1953 CE · Early Modern · Person Bristol Tattoo Club, Bristol, England Keone Nunes 1957 CE · Contemporary · Person Wai'anae, O'ahu, Hawai'i Jimmy Ho 1958 CE · Modern · Person International Tattoo (國際紋身) · Mong Kok, Hong Kong Zeke Owens 1958 CE · Modern · Person Long Beach Pike and San Diego, California China Sea Tattoo Company 1960 CE · Contemporary · Shop 1033 Smith Street, Chinatown, Honolulu, Hawaii Cindy Ray (Bev Robinson) 1960 CE · Contemporary · Person Moving Pictures Tattoo, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia Horigoro I 1960 CE · Contemporary · Person Tokyo, Japan Horitoku I 1960 CE · Contemporary · Person Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan Lyle Tuttle 1960 CE · Modern · Person 30 7th Street · San Francisco Matses Facial Tattooing 1960 CE · Modern · Tradition Yavari basin · Peru and Brazil border Sailor Sid Diller 1960 CE · Contemporary · Person Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA NYC Tattoo Ban 1961 CE · Modern · Event New York City Thom deVita 1965 CE · Modern · Person Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, USA Don Ed Hardy 1967 CE · Modern · Person Tattoo City · 700 Lombard Street, San Francisco Mike Malone (Rollo Banks) 1968 CE · Modern · Person China Sea Tattoo, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA George Bone 1970 CE · Contemporary · Person Den of Skulls, Hanwell, London, England Horitoshi I 1970 CE · Contemporary · Person Tokyo, Japan Mr Sebastian (Alan Oversby) 1970 CE · Contemporary · Person London, England Horitomo 1971 CE · Modern · Person San Jose, California · United States Horiyoshi III 1971 CE · Contemporary · Person Yokohama · Japan Gill Montie 1974 CE · Modern · Person Palm Bay, Florida, USA (Gill Montie's Tattoo Mania); founder of Tattoo Mania on the Sunset Strip, West Hollywood Charlie Cartwright (Good Time Charlie) 1975 CE · Modern · Person Good Time Charlie's origin corridor · Whittier Boulevard, East LA Chicano Black & Grey 1975 CE · Modern · Tradition Whittier Boulevard corridor · East Los Angeles Good Time Charlie's Opens 1975 CE · Modern · Event Whittier Boulevard corridor near Garfield · East Los Angeles Jack Rudy (Godfather of Black and Grey) 1975 CE · Modern · Person Good Time Charlie's Tattooland · 2641 W. Lincoln Avenue, Anaheim Freddy Negrete 1977 CE · Modern · Person Good Time Charlie's origin corridor · Whittier Boulevard, East LA Henk Schiffmacher (Hanky Panky) 1979 CE · Contemporary · Person Oudezijds Voorburgwal 141 · Amsterdam Lal Hardy 1979 CE · Contemporary · Person New Wave Tattoo, Muswell Hill, north London, England Greg Irons 1980 CE · Modern · Person San Francisco, California, USA Mayunkiki 1982 CE · Modern · Person Asahikawa, Hokkaido · Japan Henning Jorgensen (Royal Tattoo) 1983 CE · Contemporary · Person Royal Tattoo, Helsingor, Denmark Fip Buchanan 1984 CE · Contemporary · Person Avalon Tattoo 2, San Diego, California Patty Kelley 1984 CE · Contemporary · Person Avalon Tattoo, Pacific Beach, San Diego, California Pat Fish 1985 CE · Modern · Person Santa Barbara, California · United States Su'a Sulu'ape Alaiva'a Petelo 1985 CE · Contemporary · Person Upolu, Samoa Filip Leu 1986 CE · Contemporary · Person Family Iron · Bullet, Vaud canton Freddy Corbin 1987 CE · Contemporary · Person Temple Tattoo, Oakland, California Chris Garver 1988 CE · Contemporary · Person Five Points Tattoo, Manhattan, New York, USA Guy Aitchison 1988 CE · Contemporary · Person Hyperspace Studios, Creal Springs, Illinois Paul Booth, Last Rites Tattoo 1988 CE · Contemporary · Person Last Rites · 325 W. 38th Street, New York City Gustavo Barahona (El Bara) 1990 CE · Contemporary · Person True Love Tattoo, Calle Velarde 22, Malasana, Madrid, Spain Eddy Deutsche 1991 CE · Contemporary · Person Three Kings Tattoo, Los Angeles, California Ötzi Found in the Ice 1991 CE · Contemporary · Event Hauslabjoch · Alps Dan Dringenberg 1992 CE · Contemporary · Person La Puente, California, USA Guy Le Tatooer 1992 CE · Contemporary · Person New Caledonia (origin); itinerant Mariano Antonio 1992 CE · Contemporary · Person American Tattoo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Robert Hernandez 1992 CE · Contemporary · Person Vittamin Tattoo, Madrid, Spain Tim Hendricks 1992 CE · Contemporary · Person Classic Tattoo, Fullerton, California Into You London 1993 CE · Contemporary · Shop Into You · 144 St John Street, Clerkenwell Joe Capobianco, Hope Gallery Tattoo 1993 CE · Contemporary · Person Hope Gallery Tattoo, 835 Woodward Ave, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Princess of Ukok Discovered 1993 CE · Contemporary · Event Ukok Plateau · Russia Chad Chesko 1994 CE · Contemporary · Person Fat Ram's Pumpkin Tattoo, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts (born in Florida) Stefano Alcantara 1994 CE · Contemporary · Person Stefano's Tattoo Studio, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA (and Lima, Peru) Regino Gonzales (RG) 1995 CE · Contemporary · Person Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, USA Tomas Tomas 1995 CE · Contemporary · Person Kumagaya, Saitama · Japan Yutaro Sakai (Warriorism) 1995 CE · Contemporary · Person Red Point Tattoo, London, England, UK Grime 1996 CE · Contemporary · Person Seventh Son Tattoo, 765 Clementina Street, San Francisco, California Spider Murphy's Tattoo 1996 CE · Contemporary · Shop 1006 Lincoln Avenue, San Rafael, California Theo Mindell 1996 CE · Contemporary · Person Spider Murphy's Tattoo, San Rafael, California Chad Koeplinger 1997 CE · Contemporary · Person Adventure Tattoo, Nashville, Tennessee (born Saginaw, Michigan) Mike Fite 1997 CE · Contemporary · Person Gold Club Electric Tattoo, East Nashville, Tennessee, USA NYC Lifts the Ban 1997 CE · Contemporary · Event New York City Steve Byrne 1997 CE · Contemporary · Person Rock of Ages Tattoo, South Lamar, Austin, Texas Cecil Porter 1998 CE · Contemporary · Person Cecil Porter Studios, Portland, Oregon Mike Giant 1998 CE · Contemporary · Person Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (co-founder, Stay Gold Tattoo) Cleen Rock One 1999 CE · Contemporary · Person Golden Skull, Las Vegas, Nevada Duncan X 1999 CE · Contemporary · Person Clerkenwell, London, England Kiku 1999 CE · Contemporary · Person Good Luck NYC, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York Mondial du Tatouage 1999 CE · Contemporary · Event Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France Stizzo (Stefano Boetti) 1999 CE · Contemporary · Person Best of Times Tattoo, Via Anfossi, Porta Romana, Milan, Italy Big Sleeps 2000 CE · Contemporary · Person Big Sleeps Studio, Fairfax, Los Angeles, California Carson Hill (Neuma) 2000 CE · Contemporary · Person Neuma Tattoo Machines, St. George, Utah, USA Jeff Gogue 2000 CE · Contemporary · Person 26 Swords / Off the Map Northwest, Grants Pass, Oregon Jose Lopez 2000 CE · Contemporary · Person Lowrider Tattoo Studios, Fountain Valley, California Nick Baxter 2000 CE · Contemporary · Person Art Realm Tattoo, Austin, Texas Chris Trevino (Horimana) 2001 CE · Contemporary · Person Perfection Tattoo, Austin, Texas Tony Ciavarro, Stinky Monkey Tattoos 2001 CE · Contemporary · Person Stinky Monkey Tattoos, 70 Summer St, Kingston, Massachusetts, USA Heather Bailey 2002 CE · Contemporary · Person Private studio, Los Angeles, California (formerly Spider Murphy's, San Rafael) Jime Litwalk 2002 CE · Contemporary · Person Ascension Tattoo, 832 N Mills Ave, Orlando, Florida, USA (from Detroit) Mark Mahoney (Shamrock Social Club) 2002 CE · Contemporary · Person Shamrock Social Club · 9026 W. Sunset Boulevard Mike DeVries 2003 CE · Contemporary · Person MD Tattoo Studio, Thousand Oaks, California Claudia De Sabe 2004 CE · Contemporary · Person Islington, London, England, UK Stuart G. Cripwell 2004 CE · Contemporary · Person Flying Panther Tattoo, San Diego, California Tim Lehi (Black Heart Tattoo) 2004 CE · Contemporary · Person Black Heart Tattoo, 177 Valencia Street, San Francisco, California Big Gus 2005 CE · Contemporary · Person Collective Ink Gallery, Riverside, California Chris Núñez 2005 CE · Contemporary · Person Handcrafted, Miami, Florida Emily Rose Murray 2005 CE · Contemporary · Person Third Eye Tattoo, Fitzroy North, Melbourne, Australia London Tattoo Convention 2005 CE · Contemporary · Event Tobacco Dock, London, England Marco Manzo 2005 CE · Contemporary · Person Tribal Tattoo Studio, Rome, Italy Niki Norberg 2005 CE · Contemporary · Person Wicked Tattoo, Gothenburg, Sweden Yoji Harada 2005 CE · Contemporary · Person Miami Ink / Love Hate Tattoo, Miami Beach, Florida Yomico Moreno 2005 CE · Contemporary · Person 1983 Art Studio, Brooklyn, New York Derick Montez 2006 CE · Contemporary · Person Good Medicine Tattoo, 1115 Central Ave NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA James Yocum 2006 CE · Contemporary · Person Great Wave Tattoo, Austin, Texas, USA (began in Las Cruces, New Mexico) Marcin Sonski 2006 CE · Contemporary · Person Lucidum Art, Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland Seventh Son Tattoo 2006 CE · Contemporary · Shop 765 Clementina Street, San Francisco, California Tim Beck 2006 CE · Contemporary · Person Freedom Ink Tattoos, 760 SW Washington St, Peoria, Illinois Valerie Vargas 2006 CE · Contemporary · Person Modern Classic Tattoo, Fulham, London, England Mary Joy Scott 2007 CE · Contemporary · Person Raven Eye Tattoo, Inner Richmond, San Francisco, California Steve Soto 2007 CE · Contemporary · Person Orange, California Fernando Souza 2008 CE · Contemporary · Person Studio Fernando Souza Tattoo, Brooklin, Sao Paulo, Brazil Giacomo Pompei 2008 CE · Contemporary · Person Black Horse Tattoo, Via Tuscolana, Rome, Italy Thomas Hooper 2008 CE · Contemporary · Person East Sussex, England Three Kings Tattoo 2008 CE · Contemporary · Shop 572 Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY Durga 2009 CE · Contemporary · Person Durga Tattoo, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Nazareno Tubaro 2009 CE · Contemporary · Person Private studio, Buenos Aires, Argentina Alethea Arnaquq-Baril 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Iqaluit · Nunavut Dmitriy Samohin 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Samohin Tattoo Studio, Odesa, Ukraine J. Ranno 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Absolute Art Tattoo, Richmond, Virginia, USA J.D. Burnett (Devin Burnett) 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Empire Tattoo, Asheville, North Carolina, USA Kenji Nishigaki (Gakkin) 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Private studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands Maya Sialuk Jacobsen 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Qeqertarsuaq · Greenland Oliver Macintosh 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Frith Street Tattoo, Soho, London, England Olly Furze 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Stay True Tattoo, Ashburton, Devon, England, UK Xoil 2010 CE · Contemporary · Person Needles Side Tattoo, Thonon-les-Bains, France Angelique Houtkamp 2011 CE · Contemporary · Person Salon Serpent, Jacob van Lennepstraat 58, Amsterdam, Netherlands Greggletron (Gregory Whitehead) 2011 CE · Contemporary · Person Shrine Tattoo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Chaim Machlev (DotsToLines) 2012 CE · Contemporary · Person DotsToLines, Berlin, Germany (and Los Angeles) Ichibay 2012 CE · Contemporary · Person Three Tides Tattoo, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan Nissaco 2012 CE · Contemporary · Person Tsuruyashiki (NISSACO), Osaka, Japan Shane O'Neill 2012 CE · Contemporary · Person Infamous Tattoo, Middletown, Delaware Stace Forand (Waterstreet Phantom) 2012 CE · Contemporary · Person Steveston Tattoo Co., Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Kian Forreal (Horisumi) 2013 CE · Contemporary · Person Authentink, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia Matt Jordan 2013 CE · Contemporary · Person Ship Shape Tattoo, Dairy Flat, Auckland, New Zealand Chuey Quintanar (Deer's Eye Studio) 2014 CE · Contemporary · Person Deer's Eye Studio, Long Beach, California Maxime Plescia-Buchi 2014 CE · Contemporary · Person Sang Bleu (Zurich, London, Los Angeles) Adrian Bascur 2015 CE · Contemporary · Person Vina del Mar, Chile (origin); later New York Chuco Moreno (Classic Tattoo, Fullerton) 2015 CE · Contemporary · Person Classic Tattoo, Fullerton, California Marjorie Tahbone 2015 CE · Contemporary · Person Nome · Alaska Teresa Sharpe, Unkindness Art 2015 CE · Contemporary · Person Unkindness Art, 2923 North Ave, Richmond, Virginia, USA (formerly Fort Wayne, Indiana) Ryan Ashley 2016 CE · Contemporary · Person The Strange and Unusual Oddities Parlor, Kingston, Pennsylvania Zac Scheinbaum 2016 CE · Contemporary · Person Shrine Tattoo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Iryna Khrystych 2019 CE · Contemporary · Person Upgrade Tattoo, Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Poland John J. Mayo III 2020 CE · Contemporary · Person San Diego, California Laurent Trelaun 2020 CE · Contemporary · Person Shangri-La Tattoo, San Rafael, California (and Black Heart Tattoo, San Francisco) First Maya Tattoo Tools Identified (2025) 2025 CE · Contemporary · Event Actun Uayazba Kab · Roaring Creek Valley, Belize Matt Howse 2025 CE · Contemporary · Person The Seeker Tattoo · Yucca Valley, California The Chancay Laser Tattoos (2025) 2025 CE · Contemporary · Event Chancay coast · north of Lima, Peru