Tom's Portrait of Ghost Bear Watches His Back

Someone on Tattoosday's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tattoosday?fref=ts">Facebook page</a> had recently inquired about an artist on <a href="http://tattoosday.blogspot.pt/2012/10/tom-shares-his-escher-and-hokusai.html">this post</a> which featured some great work on Tom, who I met on the Coney Island boardwalk last summer.<br /><br />I reached out to Tom for some additional details and not only did he clarify the reader's question, but he sent along a new tattoo, inked less than two weeks ago:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYI5Wyw1lDcHvzBh2ZejnQRWub7VRn4pX1rG5i_rX0bsdpDz0qPCj4ihz0_XEQvsH-YgUPfILMFYf7g3oS_L0_2vEfWzScS7QTvrOOgjDwO6r8uI3OgXbAD1KEeQPh0-aWWs_wJvkR8d0/s774/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYI5Wyw1lDcHvzBh2ZejnQRWub7VRn4pX1rG5i_rX0bsdpDz0qPCj4ihz0_XEQvsH-YgUPfILMFYf7g3oS_L0_2vEfWzScS7QTvrOOgjDwO6r8uI3OgXbAD1KEeQPh0-aWWs_wJvkR8d0/s640/photo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />This was done by <a href="http://tymelesstattoo.homestead.com/KyleProia.html">Kyle Proia</a>, the owner at <a href="http://tymelesstattoo.homestead.com/">Tymeless Tattoo & Piercing</a> in Baldwinsville, New York, just west of Syracuse. It was based on this photo:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjozE-PzA2UcZVn8nqZhBT5zHfmDIhsol5HenDrm6-YaCdp2m7fG_1tp6gMX2dUViWIdlhgrbkg7Kvhn8chfjj91CTSgpElCWk0RkuhNfqV7ei19HOv5UFP4Y5OPjOp53rSr-8Awbw80z4/s615/Ghost_Bear___Crow_by_wendelin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjozE-PzA2UcZVn8nqZhBT5zHfmDIhsol5HenDrm6-YaCdp2m7fG_1tp6gMX2dUViWIdlhgrbkg7Kvhn8chfjj91CTSgpElCWk0RkuhNfqV7ei19HOv5UFP4Y5OPjOp53rSr-8Awbw80z4/s640/Ghost_Bear___Crow_by_wendelin.jpg" width="476" /></a></div><br />Tom explained that this is a picture of <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/93501170/">Ghost Bear</a>, a member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Nation">Crow Nation</a>. This version of the image was created by <a href="http://wendelin.deviantart.com/">Wendelin</a>, based on an original black and white photograph by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Curtis">Edward S. Curtis</a>:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c06000/3c06700/3c06764r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3c00000/3c06000/3c06700/3c06764r.jpg" width="510" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo from Library of Congress (<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/93501170/">here</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>Tom elaborated:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"I have loved [this imagery] from the very first time I learned about the history, way of life these people that populated the American Plains before the arrival of the Europeans. I have another Native American on my left shoulder that is black and grey. I now have two warriors watching my back. I am planning on doing the rest of my back with a scene from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hills">Black Hills</a>, Badland area in The Dakotas."</blockquote>Thanks to Tom for sharing this awesome new tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><b id="internal-source-marker_0.27956251380965114" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This entry is ©2013 Tattoosday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are seeing this on another website other than Tattoosday, without attribution, please note that it has been copied without the author's permission and is in violation of copyright laws. 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