Tatau
Polynesian tatau, the Samoan pe'a and the Marquesan traditions, and the missionary pressure that nearly ended them.
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- - Nuku Hiva Warrior1. Plate of a tattooed male from Nukuhiva (Marquesas Islands).???.
- - Nuku Hiva Warrior2. Portrait of a tattooed male from Nukuhiva (Marquesas Islands).???.
- - Iles Sandwich, un officier du roi en grand costume, dessine par S. Leroy d apres Js. Arago; grave par. Iles Sandwich, un Officier du Roi en Grand Costume, etching, hand-colored with watercolor, by Lerouge and Forget after S. Leroy, after Jacques Arago, artist with French captain and navigator de Frecycinet, 1819.
- - Tattooed man, Tahuata, Polynesia, 1839, James Addison - Flickr - State Library of NSW. Tattooed man, Tahuata (Santa Christina), Polynesia, 29 July 1839, drawing by James Addison, from album of drawings, maps and coastal profiles of Pacific Islands, 1837-1840, State Library of New South Wales, DL PX 55 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9O4owD6n/JDz7QMZR2NBdo.
- - M. Radiguet, Recontre entre Dupetit-Thouars, Te Moana, et Pakoko portant une coiffure. Recontre entre Dupetit-Thouars, Te Moana, et Pakoko portant une coiffure - 1er juin 1842.
- - Mate Oumo, prince de l’île de Noukahiva. En 1838, Mate Oumo (Omo ?) - frère de Vavanouha, chef à Taiohae - monta à bord de la Zélée, et fit l'admiration du Contre-Amiral Durmont d'Urville. Lithographie de l'Atelier Rigo Frères, ex Voyage autour du monde de Dumont d'Urville publié par Berquet et Petion,Paris, 1842, Dessin de Le Guillou, litho.
- - P. Sellier, Reine di Noukahiva, Iles Marquises. Record Sellier, P Reine di Noukahiva, Iles Marquises. 1894?
- - René Gillotin, Portraits de Pacoco, Temoana, Taïaoco et Veketou. René Gillotin, Portraits de Pacoco, chef guerrier, Temoana, roi de Nuku Hiva et son épouse Taïaoco, Veketou, grand prêtre 1.
- - Atlas pittoresque pl 059. La princesse Apekoua ou Patini, Tahia, jeune fille. Atlas pittoresque, planche 59.
- - Retrato de un hombre de las Islas Marquesas. Homme marquisien tatoué, a painting, oil on canvas, after a drawing by Félix Marant-Boissauveur (ca. 1846).
- - Back view Samoan male tatau - photo Thomas Andrew - 1890s. Back view of Samoan male with traditional tattoo (tatau, pe'a).
- - Samoan tatau - tattooing circa 1895 - photo Thomas Andrew. A Samoan tattooist (left), Tufuga ta tatau and assistant (right), carrying out a traditional tatau on a man's back. The tattooist uses traditional tools.
- - QB-TT 004 - Electric Pen, plan. Plan du précurseur de la machine a tatouer, par Edison : Electric Pen and Press.
- - Samoa uma, where life is different (1902) (14596672079). Samoa 'uma, where life is different New York, Forest and Stream publishing company.
- - Fred Harris Tattoo Studio slnsw. Tattoo equipment, Fred Harris Studio, Sydney, Australia, by Ray Olsen, 1937, State Library of New South Wales ON 388/Box 030/Item 083.
- - Reisetätowierausrüstung um 1940. Reisetätowierausrüstung Peoria Ill von Karl Murphy. Tattoo Museum Willy Robinson.
- - MK 1974 3. Manfred Kohrs, Hannover / Germany, in his Studio 1976. This rotary tattoo machine was developed in 1975 by the German tattoo artists H.H.
- - Rollomatic liner. (Mike Malone, 1942-2007).
- - Skin stories - kunst galerei fürth 2015; Manfred Kohrs. Rotationstätowiermaschine Manfred Kohrs 1978 K, Kunstausstellung skin stories in der kunst galerie fürth 2015.
- - Marquises 9607b. Tiki en bois dans les iles marquises.
- - Samoan Tattoo - front detail. Detail of front shot of traditional Samoan tattoo.
- - Tattoo - by Brian Teutsch. Tattoo being set. Someone creating a work of art.
- - GOGO-TATTOO-MACHINE. It´s a Tattoo-Machine from the side. It looks great, when you put the sharpness of the back away.
- - Jaegermeister-19. Miss Arschgeweih 2006 - die dargestellten Personen haben der Veröffentlichung zugestimmt und verzichtet auf das Recht am eigenen Bild gemäß § 22 Kunsturheberrechtsgesetz.
- - Tattoo artist with latex gloves. These photos are licensed under a creative commons license. feel free to use these photos on the web.
- - Tattoo parlor mirror. If you see Kev sometime in the next couple days, please resist the urge to give him a brotherly punch to the chest. Kev and I have been exchanging Christmas and birthday gifts for as long as we've known each other.
- - Samoan Malu by Tufuga Tatau Petelo Suluape [RTALEFOSIO]. Petelo Sulu'ape marks a malu on a woman's legs, working with the hand tools and a team while the family looks on.
- - 1st Tattoo Show in Singapore (3187084548). It's never too old for this trade. Over 60 Local & International Tattooists to converge on Singapore Expo from 9, 11 January 2009 to Showcase, Educate & Celebrate Tattoo Artistry.
- - Tattoo Maschine Nadel. Streckenbach - Kohrs rotary-tattoo-machine type 1978 K.
- - Tatau - Sāmoan Tattooing - Tales from Te Papa episode 87. Samoan tools and marked garments in a museum collection are used to explain how the au was made, how the pigment was prepared and what the finished pe'a signified.
- - Tagata Pasifika Tatau special: Part 1 of 2. Samoan practitioners and people who carry the marks speak in a Pacific news setting about the standing of tatau and the pressures on it.
- - FALEALILI TATAU - Tufuga tatau KASALA SANELE [RTALEFOSIO]. In Falealili a tufuga works with his assistants, the mallet striking in rhythm while the skin is stretched and wiped between passes.
- - Instruments for traditional Pacific Island tattoos. (tapping stick) made of ulei wood, moli (tattoo tool) made of wood and bone, and apu paʻu (ink bowl), made of jade.
- - Leftovers (9111746086). Post-tattoo debris (for those who have never been in a tattoo shop).
- - The History of the Samoan Tatau - Part 1. Samoan accounts place the origin of tatau in a journey across the water by two sisters, and that story is told alongside the tufuga lineages that have carried the practice since.
- - Sarawak: three Sea Dayak women in various types of dress. Ph
- - The history of tattoos - Addison Anderson. Marked skin turns up on mummified remains thousands of years old, and the uses that follow run from status and healing to penal marking and the modern studio.
- - Nā Loea: The Masters | Keone Nunes: Ancestral Ink. Keone Nunes restored Hawaiian kakau by tracing surviving descriptions and rebuilding the tools, and works under protocol that governs who receives a mark and when.
- - Exposition Tatoueurs, tatoués au Musée du quai Branly à Paris en juin 2015 - 22. Drawing from the book Historical and accurate tell of the stay of Kabris Joseph, a native of Bordeaux, in Mendoça Islands in the Pacific Ocean at the exhibition Tattooists, tattooed at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, France. Held by Musée du quai Branly.
- - MKG Hamburg 2015 Tattoo 7. Aus Alltagsgegenständen gefertigte Tätowiermaschine. Ausstellung Tattoo im MKG Hamburg 2015.
- - Tattoo MKG Hamburg 2015. Tätowiergeräte im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg: Primitiv trifft Moderne.
- - Samoan Male Tattoo. Close on the dense black bands of a completed Samoan men's mark, showing how the lines follow the shape of the body.
- - Reisetätowiermaschine Tattoo Museum Robinson Bild Diana Kohrs. Reisetätowiermaschine - Tattoo Museum Willy Robinson im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 2016.
- - Samoan tattoo (tatau) history and tools. The au, the toothed comb bound to a handle and struck with a mallet, is held up and its construction explained alongside older Samoan examples held in a museum collection.
- - TATAU - A Captain Cook Story (Tattoo History). Cook's crews in the Pacific brought back the Samoan and Tahitian word tatau, which entered English as tattoo, and the encounter that carried it is reconstructed.
- - The last Kalinga tattoo artist, Whang Od | DW Documentary. In Buscalan in the Philippine Cordillera, Whang-od taps Kalinga designs with a thorn and a bamboo stick, marking visitors as well as the apprentices she is training to continue it.
- - The last Kalinga tattoo artist, Whang Od | DW Documentary. In Buscalan in the Philippine Cordillera, Whang-od taps Kalinga designs with a thorn and a bamboo stick, marking visitors as well as the apprentices she is training to continue it.
- - 'Polynesian Tattoos' The Art of Ink (Season 2) Digital Exclusive | Paramount Network. Polynesian design elements and their arrangement on the body are discussed in a commercial studio setting, some distance from the hand tools and household protocol they come from.
- - 'Polynesian Tattoos' The Art of Ink (Season 2) Digital Exclusive | Paramount Network. Polynesian design elements and their arrangement on the body are discussed in a commercial studio setting, some distance from the hand tools and household protocol they come from.
- - Tufuga Ta Tatau Health and Safety Workshop. Tufuga meet to work through hygiene, sterilisation and blood-borne infection risk, adapting handling of the au and the workspace without giving up the tools themselves.
- - Tufuga Ta Tatau Health and Safety Workshop. Tufuga meet to work through hygiene, sterilisation and blood-borne infection risk, adapting handling of the au and the workspace without giving up the tools themselves.
- - Traditional Samoan Tattoo Ritual. A tufuga ta tatau works with hand tools, tapping pigment into the skin while assistants stretch it taut and the family of the person being marked sits close by throughout.
- - Traditional Samoan Tattoo Ritual. A tufuga ta tatau works with hand tools, tapping pigment into the skin while assistants stretch it taut and the family of the person being marked sits close by throughout.
- - The art of the traditional Hawaiian tattoo. Hawaiian kakau is applied with hand tools rather than a machine, and the practitioner explains the genealogical and protective meanings in the patterns.
- - The art of the traditional Hawaiian tattoo. Hawaiian kakau is applied with hand tools rather than a machine, and the practitioner explains the genealogical and protective meanings in the patterns.
- - My Tatau: Sadat Muaiava shares what his tatau (Sāmoan tattoo) means to him. Sadat Muaiava explains what carrying his marks means for his obligations to family and to the Samoan language he teaches.
- - My Tatau: Sadat Muaiava shares what his tatau (Sāmoan tattoo) means to him. Sadat Muaiava explains what carrying his marks means for his obligations to family and to the Samoan language he teaches.
- - My Tatau: Vaipuna Siaunu‘ua shares what her tatau (Sāmoan tattoo) means to her. Vaipuna Siaunu'ua talks about the malu she carries, what it connects her to, and how people respond to seeing it.
- - My Tatau: Vaipuna Siaunu‘ua shares what her tatau (Sāmoan tattoo) means to her. Vaipuna Siaunu'ua talks about the malu she carries, what it connects her to, and how people respond to seeing it.
- - My Sister Gets Her Malu |Dec 2019| Malofie Journey. A woman receives her malu with her family around her, and the sessions and the closing of the mark are followed by her sibling.
- - My Sister Gets Her Malu |Dec 2019| Malofie Journey. A woman receives her malu with her family around her, and the sessions and the closing of the mark are followed by her sibling.
- - Tufuga Ta Tatau Workshop 2019. Practitioners gather to work through their craft together, comparing tools, technique and the protocol that governs how a Samoan mark is begun, paused and finally completed.
- - Tufuga Ta Tatau Workshop 2019. Practitioners gather to work through their craft together, comparing tools, technique and the protocol that governs how a Samoan mark is begun, paused and finally completed.
- - Marks of Mana Pt1 - Malu story. The malu runs from behind the knee to the upper thigh and is taken by women, and those who wear it explain the decision, the endurance and the standing it carries.
- - Marks of Mana Pt1 - Malu story. The malu runs from behind the knee to the upper thigh and is taken by women, and those who wear it explain the decision, the endurance and the standing it carries.
- - Marks of Mana Full Documentary. Women across the Pacific take up marking that was discouraged or broken off under mission and colonial pressure, including the Samoan malu, and speak about reclaiming it in their own generation.
- - Marks of Mana Full Documentary. Women across the Pacific take up marking that was discouraged or broken off under mission and colonial pressure, including the Samoan malu, and speak about reclaiming it in their own generation.
- - I got my TATAU TWICE (Documentary). Taking the pe'a means days of tapping, swelling and recovery, and the man marked describes going through the process twice and what stopping partway would have meant.
- - I got my TATAU TWICE (Documentary). Taking the pe'a means days of tapping, swelling and recovery, and the man marked describes going through the process twice and what stopping partway would have meant.
- - Tatau Patterns Explained | Cultural Refresh. Individual motifs within Samoan marking are named and their placement explained, showing how the sections of a pe'a or malu fit together into one design.
- - Tatau Patterns Explained | Cultural Refresh. Individual motifs within Samoan marking are named and their placement explained, showing how the sections of a pe'a or malu fit together into one design.
- - How Traditional Polynesian Hand-Tapping Evolved - Tatau History | Joshawa Elsas. Hand-tapping is discussed as a technique with its own lineage of practitioners, its own tools, and a set of rules about who may apply it and under what authority.
- - How Traditional Polynesian Hand-Tapping Evolved — Tatau History | Joshawa Elsas. Hand-tapping is discussed as a technique with its own lineage of practitioners, its own tools, and a set of rules about who may apply it and under what authority.
- - Dr Pangolin discusses tattoo history in Tahiti, Marqueses and Mo'orea islands of Polynesia. Tahitian, Marquesan and Mo'orean marking is compared on its motifs and placement, with attention to how much was recorded before missionary suppression and how the revival reads that record.
- - Dr Pangolin discusses tattoo history in Tahiti, Marqueses and Mo'orea islands of Polynesia. Tahitian, Marquesan and Mo'orean marking is compared on its motifs and placement, with attention to how much was recorded before missionary suppression and how the revival reads that record.
- - Insel 2 (Freiburg im Breisgau). Tattoo Shop im Kulturdenkmal Insel 2 (Freiburg im Breisgau).
- - Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry The Life of Norman K Collins Documentary - Tattoo History. Norman Collins, who worked as Sailor Jerry in Honolulu, drew on Pacific and Asian motifs for an American clientele, and his shop, his rivals and his influence on Western tattooing are laid out.
- - Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry The Life of Norman K Collins Documentary - Tattoo History. Norman Collins, who worked as Sailor Jerry in Honolulu, drew on Pacific and Asian motifs for an American clientele, and his shop, his rivals and his influence on Western tattooing are laid out.
- - Tatau: The women keeping Sāmoan tattoo alive in Grey Lynn | Still Here. In Grey Lynn in Auckland, Samoan women keep tatau going outside Samoa, marking the malu and speaking about what it means to carry it in a diaspora setting.
- - Tatau: The women keeping Sāmoan tattoo alive in Grey Lynn | Still Here. In Grey Lynn in Auckland, Samoan women keep tatau going outside Samoa, marking the malu and speaking about what it means to carry it in a diaspora setting.
- - Tapuai Fa'amalua Tipi 'His process of getting his Malofie Tatau done'.. One man walks through his own malofie from the decision to begin to the ceremony that closes it, describing what each stage asked of him.
- - Tapuai Fa'amalua Tipi 'His process of getting his Malofie Tatau done'.. One man walks through his own malofie from the decision to begin to the ceremony that closes it, describing what each stage asked of him.
- - This artist is bringing back the art of Māori tā moko tattooing with traditional tools. Uhi chisels replace the machine in the hands of a practitioner returning tā moko to the method it was made with, tapping pigment into the skin rather than pushing it with a needle.
- - This artist is bringing back the art of Māori tā moko tattooing with traditional tools. Uhi chisels replace the machine in the hands of a practitioner returning tā moko to the method it was made with, tapping pigment into the skin rather than pushing it with a needle.
- - Under the au: The spiritual rebirth of traditional Samoan tattoo | Stuff.co.nz. The au is bound, dipped and struck, and the people who have taken Samoan marks describe the authority the tufuga holds and why the tools matter more than speed.
- - Under the au: The spiritual rebirth of traditional Samoan tattoo | Stuff.co.nz. The au is bound, dipped and struck, and the people who have taken Samoan marks describe the authority the tufuga holds and why the tools matter more than speed.
- - Tautua: Inked in Service. Samoan Tatau Documentary. Tautua, service to family and village, is the reason given for taking the pe'a. Men who have completed it and the tufuga who marked them describe what the obligation means afterwards.
- - Tautua: Inked in Service. Samoan Tatau Documentary. Tautua, service to family and village, is the reason given for taking the pe'a. Men who have completed it and the tufuga who marked them describe what the obligation means afterwards.
- - How to Prepare for your Malu. Before taking the malu there are practical matters to settle: who will be present, what is owed to the tufuga, how to care for the skin, and what commitment is being entered into.
- - How to Prepare for your Malu. Before taking the malu there are practical matters to settle: who will be present, what is owed to the tufuga, how to care for the skin, and what commitment is being entered into.
- - Tradition’s of Polynesia TATTOO (1993) Documentary . Across Samoa, Tonga and the wider Pacific, hand-tapped marking is set out as a matter of rank, service and obligation rather than decoration, with the tools and the pigment shown in use.
- - Tradition’s of Polynesia TATTOO (1993) Documentary . Across Samoa, Tonga and the wider Pacific, hand-tapped marking is set out as a matter of rank, service and obligation rather than decoration, with the tools and the pigment shown in use.
- - Tolouena Samoan tattoo (tatau). A section of Samoan marking is worked in close view, the comb struck steadily into the skin while the surface is held tight.
- - Tolouena Samoan tattoo (tatau). A section of Samoan marking is worked in close view, the comb struck steadily into the skin while the surface is held tight.
- - [Documentaire] L'Art du Tatouage traditionnel - Voyage au cœur de la Polynésie. Practitioners in French Polynesia work with tools and patterns drawn from the older Marquesan repertoire, explaining how a design is composed for a particular person.
- - [Documentaire] L'Art du Tatouage traditionnel - Voyage au cœur de la Polynésie. Practitioners in French Polynesia work with tools and patterns drawn from the older Marquesan repertoire, explaining how a design is composed for a particular person.
- - TATAU - Short FILM (2012) 4K. A short drama built around a young Samoan man's decision to take the pe'a and the expectations placed on him by family and village.
- - TATAU - Short FILM (2012) 4K. A short drama built around a young Samoan man's decision to take the pe'a and the expectations placed on him by family and village.
- - TATAU- Traditional Samoan Tattoo (Malofie) of my husband -December 2024 | Samoan Filipino Family. A malofie is taken over successive sessions, with the swelling, the rest days and the family support that surrounds it recorded through to the end.
- - TATAU- Traditional Samoan Tattoo (Malofie) of my husband -December 2024 | Samoan Filipino Family. A malofie is taken over successive sessions, with the swelling, the rest days and the family support that surrounds it recorded through to the end.
- - Indigenous Tattoo History: Ancient Ink and Sacred Stories | Interview With Lars Krutak. An anthropologist who has worked with marking traditions across the Arctic, Southeast Asia and the Pacific discusses what the designs recorded and why so many lines were interrupted.
- - Indigenous Tattoo History: Ancient Ink and Sacred Stories | Interview With Lars Krutak. An anthropologist who has worked with marking traditions across the Arctic, Southeast Asia and the Pacific discusses what the designs recorded and why so many lines were interrupted.
- - Tongan Kalia Tattoo Revival 2002 Carl Cocker. Tongan marking, largely broken off in the nineteenth century, is picked up again with reference to Samoan practice and the kalia canoe motifs recorded from Tonga.
- - Tongan Kalia Tattoo Revival 2002 Carl Cocker. Tongan marking, largely broken off in the nineteenth century, is picked up again with reference to Samoan practice and the kalia canoe motifs recorded from Tonga.
- - INSANE Polynesian Tattoo Culture!. A visitor watches hand-tapped Polynesian marking done and reacts to the tools, the sound and the time it takes.
- - INSANE Polynesian Tattoo Culture!. A visitor watches hand-tapped Polynesian marking done and reacts to the tools, the sound and the time it takes.
- - Les Marquises, l’âme sauvage de la Polynésie - Nuku Hiva - Documentaire voyage - AMP. Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas holds steep valleys, stone tiki and a marking tradition broken by missionaries and taken up again, alongside the dance and carving revived with it.
- - Les Marquises, l’âme sauvage de la Polynésie - Nuku Hiva - Documentaire voyage - AMP. Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas holds steep valleys, stone tiki and a marking tradition broken by missionaries and taken up again, alongside the dance and carving revived with it.
- - O le Malaga a le Malofie | Our Sacred Samoan Tattoo Journey | Frank & Taylor Winterstein - July 2023. A family travels to Samoa so that one of them can take the malofie, and the sessions, the recovery and the closing ceremony are followed day by day.
- - O le Malaga a le Malofie | Our Sacred Samoan Tattoo Journey | Frank & Taylor Winterstein - July 2023. A family travels to Samoa so that one of them can take the malofie, and the sessions, the recovery and the closing ceremony are followed day by day.
- - The Painful 8-Day Ritual of the Samoan Pe'a Tattoo | EP052. The pe'a covers a man from the waist to the knees and takes days of tapping, with rest between sessions, bleeding, swelling and a household that stays present until it is finished.
- - The Painful 8-Day Ritual of the Samoan Pe'a Tattoo | EP052. The pe'a covers a man from the waist to the knees and takes days of tapping, with rest between sessions, bleeding, swelling and a household that stays present until it is finished.
- - Tatau Samoa, the story of Paulo Sulu'ape. Paulo Sulu'ape carried tatau out of Samoa and into Europe and New Zealand, working on Samoans abroad and on outsiders, and his life and the controversy around that opening are traced.
- - Tatau Samoa, the story of Paulo Sulu'ape. Paulo Sulu'ape carried tatau out of Samoa and into Europe and New Zealand, working on Samoans abroad and on outsiders, and his life and the controversy around that opening are traced.
- - Faatufugaga o Tufuga ta Tatau. . The craft of the tufuga ta tatau is discussed in Samoan: how the knowledge passes down, what the titles mean, and the responsibilities that come with holding the tools.
- - Faatufugaga o Tufuga ta Tatau. . The craft of the tufuga ta tatau is discussed in Samoan: how the knowledge passes down, what the titles mean, and the responsibilities that come with holding the tools.