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Chicano tattoo body art collection
CEMA 98
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Title: Chicano tattoo body art collection
Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 98
Language of Material:
English.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
0.2 Linear Feet
(1 half-size document box)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1970s
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
No known provenance.
[Identification of Item], Chicano tattoo body art collection, CEMA 98. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
This collection began with the acquisition of a set of 71 slides (the photographer is unknown) that suggest a
possible ethnocentric study on gang life in San Gabriel Valley, California. Included in the slides are images of
tattoos and tattooing, as well as images of picnics, confrontations with police, graffiti, and group shots. Also
included in the collection is an article from the
San Diego Union-Tribune on the meaning of tattoos and
tattooing.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Tattooing -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Mexican American youth -- California -- San Gabriel River Valley -- Social life and customs
Graffiti -- California
Tattooing in art
Body piercing