English: Drawing of a mermaid tattoo that belonged to an American seafarer in the early 1800s. This is Figure 6 in the journal article "The Tattoos of Early American Seafarers, 1796-1818" by Ira Dye, on page 545. The article provides this caption: "A Mermaid tattoo of 1808, from a preserved skin specimen."
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