![]() ![]() They did believe his tattoos to be authentic examples of Burmese tattooing. The academics who examined him did notice several variations in the story he told, and somewhat doubted that the process took only three months. The tattoos on his fingers were translated from Burmese and indicated his was considered to be a poor character. In the early 1870s while in Vienna, he attracted the attention of medical professionals and anthropologists. He then traveled to British Hong Kong, took a ship through the Suez Canal, and then went to Vienna, Austrian Empire for a lengthy period. The European consul there helped him reach Manila, where he was sick for some time. He eventually escaped and spent four months travelling through southern China before reaching Amoy. During the three-month long process, he had to be held down by four men. Costentenus and two others were punished by tattooing at Bhamo. ![]() He and eleven companions fell into the hands of the Royal Burmese armed forces troops. The expedition was proclaimed hostile by the Konbaung dynasty government at Awa. In the 1860s, he took part in a French expedition to Burma that was in search of gold. He was able to speak Greek, Arabic, Persian, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and English. As an adult, he was a pirate and adventurer. He was a native of Albania, in the Ottoman Empire, however his family was ethnically Greek and they were Christians. George Costentenus was born on April 17, 1833. He was known to be able to speak multiple languages. Those images ranged from exotic animals to flowers to geometric figures to foreign writing. All together he had 387 figures tattooed on his body. The only exceptions were the soles of his feet and parts of his ears. The tattooing was done with indigo and cinnabar, and covered him from head to foot. The Spaniard went blind and died in Manila. After the tattooing was completed, the three escaped from prison. They were taken prisoner and subjected to a three-month-long tattooing session as punishment. A rebellion arose and they sided with the insurgents. In 1867 he was travelling with an American and a Spaniard in Tartary on a mining expedition. He claimed to have been a descendant of a noble Greek family from Ottoman Albania. 1 Fictive origins as reported in Americaįictive origins as reported in America. ![]()
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