A BOOK DEPICTING BURMESE TATTOOS, BURMA (MYANMAR), LATE 19TH CENTURY A BOOK DEPICTING BURMESE TATTOOS, BURMA (MYANMAR), LATE 19TH CENTURY A BOOK DEPICTING BURMESE TATTOOS, BURMA (MYANMAR), LATE 19TH CENTURY A BOOK DEPICTING BURMESE TATTOOS, BURMA (MYANMAR), LATE 19TH CENTURY

A BOOK DEPICTING BURMESE TATTOOS, BURMA (MYANMAR), LATE 19TH CENTURY

Reference: ART400559

This wonderful large tattoo manuscript is covered on both sides of the foldout mulberry (saa) paper with sacred symbols of the zodiac and mythology, as well as numerology and sacred Buddhist texts. The book has 14 pages all illustrated on both sides with white steatite. 35 by 16.5 cm.