{"id":45338,"date":"2022-06-11T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/11\/maori-moko-facial-tattoos-revived-by-a-new-generation-with-designs-on-the-future"},"modified":"2022-06-11T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:00:08","slug":"maori-moko-facial-tattoos-revived-by-a-new-generation-with-designs-on-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45338","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori moko facial tattoos revived by a new generation with designs on the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After brutal colonial-era efforts to suppress M\u0101ori culture, symbols of Indigenous identity are flourishing once more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mokonui-\u0101-rangi Smith crouches on a woven mat, deep in concentration, the sound of tapping filling the room. Rhythmically, Smith hits a sharp bone comb to pierce the skin of the man in front of him, pushing in the pigment. The process is painstaking, meditative.<\/p>\n<p>Over Smith\u2019s shoulders two kuia \u2013 female elders \u2013 are visible, with lines of ink tracing their faces. They feature on two 1970 magazine covers encased in glass. The headline declares: \u201cM\u0101ori Moko Fast Disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/11\/maori-moko-facial-tattoos-revived-by-a-new-generation-with-designs-on-the-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After brutal colonial-era efforts to suppress M\u0101ori culture, symbols of Indigenous identity are flourishing once moreMokonui-\u0101-rangi Smith crouches on a woven mat, deep in concentration, the sound of tapping filling the room. Rhythmically, Smith hits a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,503,897,56,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-tattoos"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45339,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45338\/revisions\/45339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}