Tattoos
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South Korea’s tattooists win legal recognition but their fight isn’t over
After 33 years underground, tattoo artists celebrate a landmark law as prosecutions continueOutside Seoul’s no…
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Ancient preserved heads give up their secrets as Māori tattoos see resurgence
New research examines how traditional artists worked as revitalisation efforts see tā moko – Māori tattooing –…
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Indigenous tattooist becomes Vogue’s oldest ever cover star at 106
Apo Whang-Od appears on front of Philippine edition and is credited with keeping batok form of art alive An In…
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Māori moko facial tattoos revived by a new generation with designs on the future
After brutal colonial-era efforts to suppress Māori culture, symbols of Indigenous identity are flourishing on…
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‘We had no paper, no pens, but we had our bodies’: the sacred and symbolic in Pasifika tattoos | Lagipoiva Cherelle
The New Zealand foreign minister’s moko has become international news, but beyond an identifier, our tatau are…