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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]
Toi moko, or mokomokai, are the preserved heads of Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, where the faces have been decorated by tā moko tattooing. They became valuable trade items during the Musket Wars of the early 19th century.
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 ...
The design is not based on any specific moko [27] and was created directly on Tyson's face. [28] Tyson saw the tattoo as representing the Māori, whom he described as a "warrior tribe", and approved of the design, [29] which consists of monochrome spiral shapes above and below his left eye. [30]
The start of her career coincided with a revival of interest in tā moko as an art form and particularly a revival of moko kauae, chin tattoos worn by women. [7] New Zealand news website Stuff has described her as being at the "forefront" of the revival of tā moko. [8]
Nga Korero Aoteatea – Fifty Maori Artists, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington 1999; Ta Moko is NOT Tattoo, interactive CD Rom Artpix 3 Houston, USA, 2001; Tau-Marumaru, Harris Fine Arts Center BYU, Utah USA 2005; Navigating the Now, Whakatane Museum & Gallery, 26 June–Aug 8 2010; Roundabout: 108 Artists, Wellington, Israel, 2007–2010
Continuing with writing after his retirement, he returned to his interest in tattoos and wrote two books relating to his time in New Zealand, Moko or Maori Tattooing in 1896 and Pounamu: Notes on New Zealand Greenstone. In the first book, as well as demonstrating and explaining the art of Māori tattooing, he also wrote chapters on the dried ...
Tā moko is the art of traditional Māori tattooing, done with a chisel. Men were tattooed on many parts of their bodies, including faces, buttocks and thighs. Women were usually tattooed only on the lips and chin. Moko conveyed a person's ancestry.