Unique Polynesian Tattoos and View Maori Tribal Tattoo
Maori are New Zealand’s indigenous people whose ancestors were migrants from eastern Polynesia between AD800 to 1300. Bring with them into new soil is rich Polynesian culture and unique Maori tribal tattoo art.
Ta moko, called tattoos in Maori language, traditional tattoo lines engraved on the face and other parts of the body using a sharp or jagged bone chisel of sea birds. Although the process of tattooing is very frightening, painful and long, it is a sacred event. Tattooing was usually accompanied by performances of traditional flute music and singing poetry to help ease the pain while carrying their bodies are sculpted with curved lines and patterns. Because of widespread pain caused by body movement, the carrier will not be able to eat solid food until the wounds on his face was restored.
People usually wear ancient art of Maori tattoo on their buttocks, face, and thigh, while the women will be carved out their Polynesian tattoos on their upper lip, chin, and nose. Maori tattoo visual signs that the carrier delivered tribal identity, ancestry, family rank, social status and spirituality. This practice has been around for more than a thousand years. In the past only important Maori tattoos, and for those who do not have any tattoo ta moko considered to have no social status.
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