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Artoria Gibbons, born Anna Mae Burlingston, worked as a tattoo attraction for multiple circuses during the early and mid-twentieth century.

Early Life
Anna Mae Burlingston was born to parents Frank and Amma Mabel (neé Mason) Burlingston in Portage County, Wisconsin on July 16, 1893. in 1907, her family moved to Colville, Washington where her father soon died from typhoid fever.Due to her family no longer having an income, at age fourteen Anna and her sisters Almina & Mary moved to Spokane to work as servants to support their family.

Marriage
While living in Spokane, Anna met tattoo artist Charles "Red" Gibbons. The two met at a café where Red spotted Anna drinking a soda, and the two were married in 1912.