Oriini Kaipara has been a journalist for almost 20 years, focusing on issues of the country’s indigenous Maori people. Oriini Kaipara has been a journalist for almost 20 years, focusing on issues of ...

In one of the pictures of the weavers in the last post, one of the women had a tattoo on her chin. Tattoos, called Moko, have been an integral part of Maori culture for many hundreds of years. Far ...

Moko is the term that is used for the traditional tattoos of the Maori people. Each story is their own and is explained in their moko.

The word ‘tattoo’ comes from the Polynesian ‘tatau’. The highly visible and confronting, tattoos of Polynesians inspired early European sailors of the 18 th century to undergo the procedure and thus ...