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"Bargaining for a head, on the shore, the chief running up the price" – sketch by H. G. Robley. 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. Many toi ...
Sketch of a Māori chief, 1773 engraving by T. Chambers based on a 1769 drawing by Sydney Parkinson, from the 1784 edition of A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas "Portrait of a young Maori woman with moko", by Louis John Steele (1891) Portrait of Tāmati Wāka Nene by Gottfried Lindauer (1890)
Manu Farrarons. Manu Farrarons (born 1967) is a French-born Polynesian tattoo artist.Farrarons' art is a mix of Polynesian styles and designs, mostly Tahitian and Marquesan, which he mixes with Māori and Hawaiian influences.
A face tattoo or facial tattoo is a tattoo located on the bearer's face or head. It is part of the traditional tattoos of many ethnic groups. In modern times, although it is considered taboo and socially unacceptable in many cultures, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as considered extreme in body art, [ 3 ] this style and placement of tattoo has emerged in ...
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Tyson had originally wanted hearts (which he "just thought ... were cool" [23]), but, according to Tyson, Whitmill refused and worked for a few days on a new design. [24] Whitmill proposed a tribal design [25] inspired by tā moko, [c] a Māori tattoo style. [26] The design is not based on any specific moko [27] and was created directly on ...
An example of a tattoo design Application of a tattoo to a woman's foot. A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing processes and techniques, including ...
The logo of Air New Zealand, the national carrier, incorporates a koru design — based on the Ngaru (Ngāti Kahungunu) [5] kōwhaiwhai pattern — as a symbol of New Zealand flora. The logo was introduced in 1973 to coincide with the arrival of the airline's first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 wide-body jet.