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1. Is it still on the person?
2. Is the person still alive?
3. Is it the design, the placement, the method, the tattooer or the person-as-canvas that we are cataloging?
4. How many points of access do we want before it gets too confusing?
Japanese tattooed men have been known to donate their skin-as-canvas after their death to museums: I'm going to see how they are cataloged there.
Probably as works of art.
I looked on WorldCat and found two cataloged tattoos, as well as a record for probably a temporary tattoo:
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The tattoo is still on the person, the person is alive, the person as canvas, no more than one or two points of access because I don't want it to get too confusing.
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