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Tā moko is the permanent marking or tattooing as customarily practised by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is one of the five main Polynesian tattoo styles (the other four are Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian). [1] Tohunga-tā-moko (tattooists) were considered tapu, or inviolable and sacred. [2]
New Zealand news website Stuff has described her as being at the "forefront" of the revival of tā moko. [8] She has designed and inked traditional tā moko all over New Zealand, and many customers request her work because she is one of few women who practice the art. [3] [6] [9] She uses modern tools as well as traditional uhi (chisels) carved ...
Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley was a British army officer and artist who served in New Zealand during the New Zealand Wars in the 1860s. He was interested in ethnology and fascinated by the art of tattooing. He wrote Moko; or Maori Tattooing, which was published in 1896. After he returned to England he built up a collection of 35 to 40 ...
Te Awekotuku has researched and written extensively on the traditional and contemporary practices of tā moko (tattoo) in New Zealand. Her 2007 (re-published in 2011) book Mau Moko: the world of Maori tattoo, co-authored with Linda Waimarie Nikora, was the product of a five-year long research project conducted by the Māori and Psychology Research Unit at the University of Waikato, funded by a ...
Oriini Kaipara (born 1983) is a New Zealand broadcaster, journalist and translator and interpreter of Māori and English. Kaipara has worked for Mai FM, TVNZ 1, Māori Television, and Three. In 2019 Kaipara was the first person with a moko kauae facial tattoo to present mainstream television news. In 2021 she became the first such person to ...
Today, she's an established tattoo artist residing in New York City, helping to shatter the stigma surrounding women with tattoos. This woman has covered her entire body in tattoos, shedding ...
In 2006 he received the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Art Fellowship. [7] He used the award to work in Thailand on a modern whare whakairo (carved meeting house) for inclusion in Star Power: Museum as Body Electric at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in 2007. Kipa was one of seven artists representing seven countries chosen for the ...
A series of fascinating mugshots are showing the extreme evolution of a repeat offender’s look after more than a few visits to the tattoo parlor. Repeat offender shows off evolution of tattoos ...