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galliot

/ ˈɡælɪət /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of galiot

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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But the Catholics may have been mistaken, explains Galliot, who collaborated with Mallon on a history of tatau.

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In reviewing historic documents, Galliot discovered that a local shrine was linked to the legendary sisters, Taema and Tilafaiga, who are credited with bringing tatau to Samoa.

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That connection, says Galliot, was “a point that none of the missionaries had actually figured out.”

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“Tattooing is still something important in a man’s life or in a woman’s life in terms of marking their belonging to the community,” Galliot says.

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In addition to the many ships gathered on the choppy waters of the North Sea there is a tiny figure in the bottom left-hand corner of the painting of a man sketching in a small galliot beneath the stern of the Royal Prince, the English ship, as it surrenders.

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