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Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia, "Tā Moko: Māori Tattoo", in Goldie, (1997) exhibition catalogue, Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery and David Bateman, pp. 108–114. Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia, "More than Skin Deep", in Barkan, E. and Bush, R. (eds.), Claiming the Stone: Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic ...
Moko facial tattoos were traditional in Māori culture until about the mid-19th century, when their use began to disappear. There has been something of a revival from the late 20th century. In pre-European Māori culture, they denoted high social status. Generally only men had full facial moko. High-ranked women often had moko on their lips and ...
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 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 ...
Christine Harvey is a New Zealand tā moko (Māori tattoo) artist and teacher. Life and career. Harvey was born in Christchurch.
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Tattoos were symbols of tribal identity and kinship, as well as bravery, beauty, and social or wealth status. They were also believed to have magical or apotropaic abilities, and can also document personal or communal history. Their design and placement varied by ethnic group, affiliation, status, and gender.
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 Māori man painting a tattoo on a carved wooden tiki at Whakarewarewa model village, New Zealand, c. 1905 Hawaiian kiʻi at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park Tiki statuette from the Marquesas. In Māori mythology, Tiki is the first man created by either Tūmatauenga or Tāne.