Tag: Tattooing
Snapchat removes moko, mataora tattoo filters after NZ outcry
RNZ News
Social media platform Snapchat has removed a feature that allowed users to apply traditional Māori tattoos on their faces.
The filters were pulled after...
An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
In late 1913 one of the most famous men in Britain arrived in Pago Pago.
Rupert Brooke, 26, was...
Celebrating Pasifika – the art of Samoan female tattooing
By Kendall Hutt
A small, enthusiastic crowd gathered among the shelves of one of Auckland’s libraries earlier this week to listen to a lively and...
Female Melanesian tattooists to make their mark in Spain
By Hele Ikimotu
A threatened tradition will get fresh focus when a female Melanesian tattoo collective takes up a Spanish invitation.
The group, Mage’au: Melanesian Marks,...
Veiqia Project reawakens woman’s role in Fijian society
By Susan Epskamp
The Veiqia Project Exhibition is now open at Auckland University of Technology’s St Paul St Gallery Three as a result of the...
