“I ask clients about themselves, their own story, and what they want their tattoo to represent,” says Eddy Tata, a Marquesan tattoo artist who practices his work aboard the Aranui 5, the half-passenger, half-freighter ship that sails from Tahiti to the Marquesas, Tuamotu, and Society Islands. On the cover of the July 2022 issue of National Geographic, Quannah Rose Chasinghorse-a model with Hän Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota heritage-is photographed near the red rock formations in Tse’Bii’Ndzisgaii, or Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park (the portrait by Kiliii Yüyan is part of a feature package on the Native sovereignty movement). Indigenous tattoo traditions have recently become more visible: In 2021, a Māori journalist became the first person with traditional face markings to host a primetime news program on New Zealand television. The Polynesian Triangle includes more than a thousand individual islands in the South Pacific Ocean forming several dozen cultural groups, most of which have their own distinct tattoo traditions.Īcross the world, tattoos have become more popular-no longer a personal interest to be covered up at work. The legacy of Polynesian tatau, the onomatopoeic name for the practice of tattoo, began 3,000 years ago-the designs as diverse as the people who wear them.
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