And the soft, sweet flesh of young maidens began, generation after generation, to be covered with the tattooings of time, the records of the number of times the race had been reborn.
The Professor inspected, with unconcealed delight, some smalltattooings of irregular form.
The guess which made Barton leap up had not been mistaken: he recognized the tattooings he had seen on the dead body of Dicky Shields.
The tattooings and the totemic costumes would not be possible if all contact were forbidden.
In one place, outside the two ethnographic regions which we are specially studying, these tattooings are put on the animals which belong to the clan.
But even if the tattooings which are made by mutilations or scars do not always have a totemic significance,[304] it is different with simple designs drawn upon the body: they are generally representations of the totem.
Among the American Indians, this purpose is generally served by special drawings on the body; in other places, by specific tattooingsas well as by the wearing of distinctive dress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tattooings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
